Bug 826943 (CVE-2012-3406)

Summary: CVE-2012-3406 glibc: printf() unbound alloca() usage in case of positional parameters + many format specs
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Stefan Cornelius <scorneli>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: fweimer, law, mfranc, pfrankli, security-response-team
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Bug Depends On: 826947, 833716, 833717, 833720, 841318    
Bug Blocks: 822803    
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RHEL6 patch backports and test cases
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RHEL5 patch backport and test case none

Description Stefan Cornelius 2012-05-31 09:38:09 UTC 
It was discovered that the formatted printing functionality in glibc did not properly restrict the use of alloca(). A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted sequence of format specifiers, leading to a crash or, potentially, FORTIFY_SOURCE format string protection mechanism bypass, when processed.
Comment 4 Stefan Cornelius 2012-06-27 09:12:25 UTC 
Created attachment 594722 [details]
RHEL6 patch backports and test cases
Comment 5 Stefan Cornelius 2012-06-27 09:13:46 UTC 
Created attachment 594727 [details]
RHEL5 patch backport and test case
Comment 6 Stefan Cornelius 2012-07-11 10:35:09 UTC 
Pulic now/CVEs requested via:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/11/5
Comment 7 Stefan Cornelius 2012-07-11 17:25:59 UTC 
A CVE identifier of CVE-2012-3406 has been assigned to this issue.
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2012-07-18 15:23:52 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1098 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1098.html
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2012-07-18 15:24:43 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2012:1097 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1097.html
Comment 11 Vincent Danen 2012-07-18 16:40:16 UTC 
Created glibc tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 841318]
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2012-08-21 19:13:14 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  RHEV-H, V2V and Agents for RHEL-5

Via RHSA-2012:1185 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1185.html
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2012-08-23 14:25:33 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  RHEV-H and Agents for RHEL-6

Via RHSA-2012:1200 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1200.html