VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-5320

medium
Published 2017-10-18 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
6.2
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.2

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
62%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.15
sid Fixed 2.15
forky Fixed 2.15
bullseye Fixed 2.15
bookworm Fixed 2.15

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnuglibc{"endIncluding":"2.14.1"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.