CVE-2012-4424 Information

Description

Stack-based buffer 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 that triggers a malloc failure and use of the alloca function.

Reference

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14547 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:283 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:284 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/13/16 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1991-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858238 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04