Vulnerability in Gnu Glibc

CVE-2012-0864

Integer overflow in the vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in glibc 2.14 and other versions allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE protection mechanism, conduct format string attacks, and write to arbitrary memory via a large number of arguments.

EPSS: 0.027 (84.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Gnu Glibc — versions 2.14
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References