CVE-2013-4788 (GCVE-0-2013-4788)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2013-10-04 17:00
Modified
2024-08-06 16:52
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The PTR_MANGLE implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.4, 2.17, and earlier, and Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC) does not initialize the random value for the pointer guard, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to control execution flow by leveraging a buffer-overflow vulnerability in an application and using the known zero value pointer guard to calculate a pointer address.
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