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CVE-2012-3405

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 2.09%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2014-02-10 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2012-3405
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5
EPSS
2.09%

Original NVD Description

The 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.