First published: Thu May 31 2012(Updated: )
It was discovered that the formatted printing functionality in glibc did not properly restrict the use of alloca(). A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted sequence of format specifiers, leading to a crash or, potentially, FORTIFY_SOURCE format string protection mechanism bypass, when processed.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
GNU glibc | =2.5 | |
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 | =5 | |
Redhat Enterprise Linux | =6.0 |
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