PT-2012-3814 · Musl · Musl

Rich Felker · Published 2012-08-31 · Updated 2012-12-19 · CVE-2012-2114

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions musl versions prior to 0.8.8

Description The issue is a stack-based buffer overflow in the fprintf function, which can be exploited by context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. This can happen when a long string is sent to an unbuffered stream, such as stderr.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.8.8, update to version 0.8.8 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-2114

Affected Products

Musl

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2114 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/53144 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/18/6 · Note
• http://etalabs.net/musl/download.html · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/18/5 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/musl/2012/04/17/1 · Note