CVE-2012-0864
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 2.7%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 2.7% (86th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-0889)
- Published
- May 2, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-0889 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gnu / glibc
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0393.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0397.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0488.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html
- http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=7c1f4834d398163d1ac8101e35e9c36fc3176e6e
- http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-02/msg00023.html(Exploit)
- http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=67&id=9#article(Exploit)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52201(Exploit)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794766
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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