{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2012-07-11T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "glibc: incorrect use of extend_alloca() in formatted printing can lead to FORTIFY_SOURCE format string protection bypass",
    "id" : "833704",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833704"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "6.8",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect the version of glibc as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2012-07-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2012:1098",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "glibc-0:2.12-1.80.el6_3.3"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-6",
    "release_date" : "2012-08-23T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2012:1200",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6::hypervisor",
    "package" : "rhev-hypervisor6-0:6.3-20120815.0.el6_3"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "glibc",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-3405\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3405" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2012-3405",
  "csaw" : false
}