Medium severity · published Oct 18, 2017
CVE-2011-5320
scanf and related functions in glibc before 2.15 allow local users to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a large string of 0s
6.2
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
scanf and related functions in glibc before 2.15 allow local users to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a large string of 0s.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 40% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GL
Glibc · Gnu
through 2.14.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-5320
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-5320
Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/12/14
Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196745
Exploit
https://marc.info/?l=gimp-developer&m=129567990905823&w=2
Issue Tracking
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13138#c4
sourceware.org
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=20b38e0
sourceware.org
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3f8cc204fdd0
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