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CVE-2012-4412

glibc: strcoll() integer overflow leading to buffer overflow

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.4

CVSS 2.0

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Published · September 5, 2012

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

Integer 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, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.4
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound