CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.0. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2012-3404
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5
EPSS
2.23%
Original NVD Description
The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.12 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 (stack corruption and crash) via a format string that uses positional parameters and many format specifiers.