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CVE-2012-4424

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.1 EPSS 3.38%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2013-10-09 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.1. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.

CVE
CVE-2012-4424
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.1
EPSS
3.38%

Original NVD 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.