CVE-2012-1176 (GCVE-0-2012-1176)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-08-26 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 18:53
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Buffer overflow in the fribidi_utf8_to_unicode function in PyFriBidi before 0.11.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a 4-byte utf-8 sequence.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
13 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/14/9 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
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| http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/14/4 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=663189 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801896 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35055 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52451 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| https://github.com/pediapress/pyfribidi/issues/2%29: | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
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2012-03-08 00:00
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"initial_release_date": "2012-03-08T00:00:00+00:00",
"product_status:known_not_affected": "1",
"source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
"status": "final",
"title": "pyfribidi: buffer overflow when handling 4-byte utf-8 sequences",
"url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2012/cve-2012-1176.json",
"version": "3"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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