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CVE-2012-3405

The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.14 and...

5.0 MediumFix available

The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.14 and other versions does not properly calculate a buffer length, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE format-string protection mechanism and cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a format string with a large number of format specifiers that triggers "desynchronization within the buffer size handling," a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3404.

Exploit likelihood

2.09%Up 1.0 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 5.0

The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.14 and other versions does not properly calculate a buffer length, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE format-string protection mechanism and cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a format string with a large number of format specifiers that triggers "desynchronization within the buffer size handling," a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3404.

Record
CVE-2012-3405
CVSS 2.0
5.0 MediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness
CWE-189
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.14 and other versions does not properly calculate a buffer length, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE format-string protection mechanism and cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a format string with a large number of format specifiers that triggers "desynchronization within the buffer size handling," a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3404.

Record
CVE-2012-3405
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2012-3376 No score

The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.14 and other versions does not properly calculate a buffer length, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE format-string protection mechanism and cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a format string with a large number of format specifiers that triggers "desynchronization within the buffer size handling," a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3404.

Record
EUVD-2012-3376
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-fwxh-prpx-6qg8 No score

The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.14 and...

The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.14 and other versions does not properly calculate a buffer length, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE format-string protection mechanism and cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a format string with a large number of format specifiers that triggers "desynchronization within the buffer size handling," a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3404.

Record
GHSA-fwxh-prpx-6qg8
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV No score

The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.14 and other versions does not properly calculate a buffer length, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE format-string protection mechanism and cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a format string with a large number of format specifiers that triggers "desynchronization within the buffer size handling," a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3404.

Record
CVE-2012-3405
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2012-3405 No score

The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in libc in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.14 and other versions does not properly calculate a buffer length, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFY_SOURCE format-string protection mechanism and cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a format string with a large number of format specifiers that triggers "desynchronization within the buffer size handling," a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3404.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3405
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2015:0551-1 No score

Security update for glibc

This update for glibc contains the following fixes:

* Fix integer overflows in malloc (CVE-2013-4332, bnc#839870)
* Fix buffer overflow in glob (bnc#691365)
* Fix buffer overflow in strcoll (CVE-2012-4412, bnc#779320)
* Update mount flags in <sys/mount.h> (bnc#791928)
* Fix buffer overrun in regexp matcher (CVE-2013-0242, bnc#801246)
* Fix memory leaks in dlopen (bnc#811979)
* Fix stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results (CVE-2013-1914,
  bnc#813121)
* Fix check for XEN build in glibc_post_upgrade that causes missing
  init re-exec (bnc#818628)
* Don't raise UNDERFLOW in tan/tanf for small but normal argument
  (bnc#819347)
* Properly cross page boundary in SSE4.2 implementation of strcmp
  (bnc#822210)
* Fix robust mutex handling after fork (bnc#827811)
* Fix missing character in IBM-943 charset (bnc#828235)
* Fix use of alloca in gaih_inet (bnc#828637)
* Initialize pointer guard also in static executables (CVE-2013-4788,
  bnc#830268)
* Fix readdir_r with long file names (CVE-2013-4237, bnc#834594).

Security Issues:

* CVE-2012-4412
  <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4412>
* CVE-2013-0242
  <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0242>
* CVE-2013-1914
  <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1914>
* CVE-2013-4237
  <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4237>
* CVE-2013-4332
  <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4332>
* CVE-2013-4788
  <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4788>
Record
SUSE-SU-2015:0551-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
glibc
Debian:12
before 2.13-35
2.13-35
glibc
Debian:13
before 2.13-35
2.13-35
glibc
Debian:14
before 2.13-35
2.13-35
eglibc
Debian:6.0
before 2.11.3-4+deb6u5, plus listed versions
2.11.2-102.11.2-10+m68k.12.11.2-112.11.2-11+m68k.12.11.2-12
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2.11.2-132.11.3-12.11.3-22.11.3-32.11.3-4
2.11.3-4+deb6u5
glibc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-common
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-debuginfo-common
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-headers
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
glibc-utils
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
nscd
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-static
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-common
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-debuginfo-common
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-headers
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-utils
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
nscd
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-static
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-common
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-debuginfo-common
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-headers
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-utils
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
nscd
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-static
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-common
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-debuginfo-common
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-headers
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-utils
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
nscd
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
glibc-static
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3
rhev-hypervisor6
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::hypervisor
before 0:6.3-20120815.0.el6_3
0:6.3-20120815.0.el6_3

History

History
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aliasesEUVD
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In short

CVE-2012-3405 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.0) in Gnu Glibc, published September 13, 2013. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 2.09%, the 81st percentile. Fixed in glibc 2.13-35.

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