CVE-2012-4415

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 13.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-10-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the guac_client_plugin_open function in libguac in Guacamole before 0.6.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long protocol name.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 16, 17
Guac-Dev Guacamole: through 0.6.2; 0.5.0, 0.6.0

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-09/0107.html
http://guac-dev.org/trac/changeset/7dcefa744b4a38825619c00ae8b47e5bae6e38c0/libguac
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/088031.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/088218.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/088272.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/11/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/11/7
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55497
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856743
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-09/0107.html
http://guac-dev.org/trac/changeset/7dcefa744b4a38825619c00ae8b47e5bae6e38c0/libguac
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/088031.html

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