CVE-2012-3405

NameCVE-2012-3405
DescriptionThe vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.14 and other versions does not properly calculate a buffer length, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE format-string protection mechanism and cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a format string with a large number of format specifiers that triggers "desynchronization within the buffer size handling," a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3404.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-165-1
Debian Bugs681473

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
glibc (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)2.19-18+deb8u14fixed
stretch (security)2.24-11+deb9u1fixed
stretch (lts), stretch2.24-11+deb9u7fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)2.28-10+deb10u4fixed
bullseye2.31-13+deb11u11fixed
bullseye (security)2.31-13+deb11u10fixed
bookworm2.36-9+deb12u9fixed
bookworm (security)2.36-9+deb12u7fixed
sid, trixie2.40-3fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
eglibcsourcesqueeze2.11.3-4+deb6u5DLA-165-1
eglibcsource(unstable)2.13-35low681473
glibcsource(unstable)2.13-35low681473

Notes

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13446
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=a4647e727a2a52e1259474c13f4b13288938bed4
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833704
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=1d498daa95384e5c9ad5bcb35e7a996e5869ac39
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/11/5
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/11/17

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