RHSA-2012:1098Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: glibc security and bug fix update

Published
July 18, 2012
Last Modified
June 27, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (3)

CVE-2012-3406 →CVE-2012-3404 →CVE-2012-3405 →

📋 Description

CVE-2012-3404 — glibc: incorrect size calculation in formatted printing can lead to FORTIFY_SOURCE format string protection bypass CVE-2012-3405 — glibc: incorrect use of extend_alloca() in formatted printing can lead to FORTIFY_SOURCE format string protection bypass CVE-2012-3406 — glibc: printf() unbound alloca() usage in case of positional parameters + many format specs

🔗 References (7)