CVE-2012-2114 (GCVE-0-2012-2114)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-08-31 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:26
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Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in fprintf in musl before 0.8.8 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string to an unbuffered stream such as stderr.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2012-04-17 00:00
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