{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2013-4788", "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 PTR_MANGLE implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.4, 2.17, and earlier, and Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC) does not initialize the random value for the pointer guard, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to control execution flow by leveraging a buffer-overflow vulnerability in an application and using the known zero value pointer guard to calculate a pointer address." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "20150907 Glibc Pointer guarding weakness", "refsource": "FULLDISC", "url": "http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Sep/23" }, { "name": "MDVSA-2013:284", "refsource": "MANDRIVA", "url": "http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:284" }, { "name": "[oss-security] 20130716 Re: CVE-2013-4788 - Eglibc PTR MANGLE bug", "refsource": "MLIST", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/15/9" }, { "name": "61183", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61183" }, { "name": "GLSA-201503-04", "refsource": "GENTOO", "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04" }, { "name": "MDVSA-2013:283", "refsource": "MANDRIVA", "url": "http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:283" }, { "name": "http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2013-4788.html", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2013-4788.html" } ] } }