{ "CVE_data_meta" : { "ASSIGNER" : "cve@mitre.org", "ID" : "CVE-2012-3406", "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 GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.5, 2.12, and probably other versions does not \"properly restrict the use of\" the alloca function when allocating the SPECS array, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE format-string protection mechanism and cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted format string using positional parameters and a large number of format specifiers, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3404 and CVE-2012-3405." } ] }, "problemtype" : { "problemtype_data" : [ { "description" : [ { "lang" : "eng", "value" : "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references" : { "reference_data" : [ { "name" : "[oss-security] 20120711 Re: CVE request: glibc formatted printing vulnerabilities", "refsource" : "MLIST", "url" : "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/11/17" }, { "name" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=594722", "refsource" : "CONFIRM", "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=594722" }, { "name" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826943", "refsource" : "CONFIRM", "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826943" }, { "name" : "GLSA-201503-04", "refsource" : "GENTOO", "url" : "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04" }, { "name" : "RHSA-2012:1097", "refsource" : "REDHAT", "url" : "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1097.html" }, { "name" : "RHSA-2012:1098", "refsource" : "REDHAT", "url" : "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1098.html" }, { "name" : "RHSA-2012:1185", "refsource" : "REDHAT", "url" : "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1185.html" }, { "name" : "RHSA-2012:1200", "refsource" : "REDHAT", "url" : "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1200.html" }, { "name" : "USN-1589-1", "refsource" : "UBUNTU", "url" : "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1589-1" } ] } }