CVE-2012-3480

EPSS 0.29%

Published: 8/25/2012Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3480

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) strtod, (2) strtof, (3) strtold, (4) strtod_l, and other unspecified "related functions" in stdlib in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.16 allow local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.

Affected packages (1)

Debian/glibcfrom 0, < 2.13-36

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3480