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CVE-2012-3405
critical
Description
The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.14 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 (segmentation fault and crash) via a format string with a large number of format specifiers that triggers "desynchronization within the buffer size handling," a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3404.
References
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13446
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833704
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1589-1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/11/17