First published: Wed Jun 20 2012(Updated: )
It was discovered that the formatted printing functionality in glibc did not properly honor the size of a structure when calculating the amount of memory to allocate. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted sequence of format specifiers, leading to an undersized buffer allocation and subsequent stack corruption, resulting in a crash or, potentially, FORTIFY_SOURCE format string protection mechanism bypass, when processed. References: <a href="http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12445">http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12445</a> <a href="http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=84a4211850e3d23a9d3a4f3b294752a3b30bc0ff">http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=84a4211850e3d23a9d3a4f3b294752a3b30bc0ff</a>
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
GNU glibc | =2.12 | |
Redhat Enterprise Virtualization | =3.0 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =8.04 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =10.04 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =11.04 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =11.10 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =12.04 | |
Redhat Enterprise Linux | =6.0 |
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