PT-2013-1883 · Swi+1 · Swi-Prolog+1

Jan Lieskovsky + 1 · Published 2013-01-04 · Updated 2018-03-04 · CVE-2012-6090

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 SWI-Prolog versions prior to 6.2.5 SWI-Prolog versions 6.3.x prior to 6.3.7

Description The issue is related to multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the expand function in os/pl-glob.c. This can be exploited by remote attackers using a crafted filename, potentially leading to a denial of service (application crash) or possibly the execution of arbitrary code.

Recommendations For SWI-Prolog versions prior to 6.2.5, update to version 6.2.5 or later. For SWI-Prolog versions 6.3.x prior to 6.3.7, update to version 6.3.7 or later.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-1360

CVE-2012-6090

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Swi-Prolog

References · 29

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6090 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-06186 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-08774 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6090 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-08771 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-08769 · Security Note
• https://lists.iai.uni-bonn.de/pipermail/swi-prolog/2012/009428.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6090 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6090 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-08770 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6089 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2896 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6090 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2018-1360 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-08772 · Security Note