CVE-2012-4412

Publication date

2013-10-09 22:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

Integer overflow in string/strcoll_l.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.17 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.