CVE-2012-3509 (GCVE-0-2012-3509)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-09-05 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:05
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Multiple integer overflows in the (1) _objalloc_alloc function in objalloc.c and (2) objalloc_alloc macro in include/objalloc.h in GNU libiberty, as used by binutils 2.22, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to the "addition of CHUNK_HEADER_SIZE to the length," which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
8 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA |
| http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-08/msg01986.html | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/29/3 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2496-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54411 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55281 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-20… | x_refsource_MISC |
Date Public
2012-08-29 00:00
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"product_status:recommended": "181",
"source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
"status": "interim",
"title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2012-3509",
"url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2012-3509.json",
"version": "11"
}
}
}
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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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