{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "secalert@redhat.com", "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": [ { "name": "RHSA-2012:1200", "refsource": "REDHAT", "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1200.html" }, { "name": "https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12445", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12445" }, { "name": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833703", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833703" }, { "name": "GLSA-201503-04", "refsource": "GENTOO", "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04" }, { "name": "RHSA-2012:1098", "refsource": "REDHAT", "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1098.html" }, { "name": "USN-1589-1", "refsource": "UBUNTU", "url": "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1589-1" }, { "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" } ] } }