CVE-2011-5320

medium

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.

References

Advisories
More

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196745

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/12/14

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3f8cc204fdd0

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=20b38e0

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13138#c4

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-10-18

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0006