CVE-2012-3480 Information

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) strtod (2) strtof (3) strtold (4) strtod_l and other unspecified \related functions\ in stdlib in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.16 allow local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-August/085190.html http://osvdb.org/84710 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1207.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1208.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1262.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1325.html http://secunia.com/advisories/50201 http://secunia.com/advisories/50422 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14459 http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-08/msg00202.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/13/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/13/6 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54982 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027374 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1589-1 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04