CVE-2012-3404

MediumCVSS 5.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.12 and other versions does not properly calculate a buffer length, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE format-string protection mechanism and cause a denial of service (stack corruption and crash) via a format string that uses positional parameters and many format specifiers.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 5.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-189

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Feb 10, 2014
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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