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CVE-2012-3405

First published: Wed Jun 20 2012(Updated: )

It was discovered that the formatted printing functionality in glibc used extend_alloca() incorrectly. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted sequence of format specifiers, leading to a desynchronization within the buffer size handling, resulting in the use of uninitialized memory or, potentially, FORTIFY_SOURCE format string protection mechanism bypass, when processed. References: <a href="http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13446">http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13446</a> <a href="http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=a4647e727a2a52e1259474c13f4b13288938bed4">http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=a4647e727a2a52e1259474c13f4b13288938bed4</a>

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
GNU glibc=2.14
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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