{ "CVE_data_meta" : { "ASSIGNER" : "cve@mitre.org", "ID" : "CVE-2012-3404", "STATE" : "PUBLIC" }, "affects" : { "vendor" : { "vendor_data" : [ { "product" : { "product_data" : [ { "product_name" : "n/a", "version" : { "version_data" : [ { "version_value" : "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name" : "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format" : "MITRE", "data_type" : "CVE", "data_version" : "4.0", "description" : { "description_data" : [ { "lang" : "eng", "value" : "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." } ] }, "problemtype" : { "problemtype_data" : [ { "description" : [ { "lang" : "eng", "value" : "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references" : { "reference_data" : [ { "url" : "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/11/17" }, { "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833703" }, { "url" : "https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12445" }, { "url" : "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04" }, { "url" : "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1098.html" }, { "url" : "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1200.html" }, { "url" : "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1589-1" } ] } }