CVE-2012-3509

MediumCVSS 5.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) _objalloc_alloc function in objalloc.c and (2) objalloc_alloc macro in include/objalloc.h in GNU libiberty, as used by binutils 2.22, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to the "addition of CHUNK_HEADER_SIZE to the length," which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Metrics

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

Weakness enumeration

CWE-189

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54411Issue Tracking
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-08/msg01986.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3509Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:029Broken Link
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/29/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55281Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2496-1Third Party Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78135Third Party Advisory
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54411Issue Tracking
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-08/msg01986.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3509Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:029Broken Link
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/29/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55281Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2496-1Third Party Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78135Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Sep 5, 2012
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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