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CVE-2012-4424

Stack-based buffer overflow in string/strcoll_l.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.17 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a deni…

Impact

Stack-based buffer overflow in string/strcoll_l.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.17 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string that triggers a malloc failure and use of the alloca function.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
GnuGlibc
through 2.17
Versions 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4

Weakness classification

CWE-119

References