CVE-2011-5320

MEDIUM6.2EPSS 0.06%

eglibc - security update

Published: 10/18/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2011-5320

Description

scanf and related functions in glibc before 2.15 allow local users to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a large string of 0s.

Affected packages (2)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1MEDIUM6.2CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (1)