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CVE-2011-5320
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2017-10-18 · updated 2026-06-16
- Weakness: CWE-119
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.
Affected products
- GNU C Library (glibc): through 2.14.1
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/12/14
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196745
- https://marc.info/?l=gimp-developer&m=129567990905823&w=2
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13138#c4
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=20b38e0
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3f8cc204fdd0
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/12/14
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196745
- https://marc.info/?l=gimp-developer&m=129567990905823&w=2
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13138#c4
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=20b38e0
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3f8cc204fdd0
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