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CVE-2012-4424

glibc: alloca() stack overflow in the strcoll() interface

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

3.7

CVSS 2.0

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Published · September 6, 2012

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

Stack-based buffer 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 that triggers a malloc failure and use of the alloca function.

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 · 3.7
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE not specified