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CVE-2012-6090

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-01-04 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the expand function in os/pl-glob.c in SWI-Prolog before 6.2.5 and 6.3.x before 6.3.7 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted filename.

Affected products

• Swi-Prolog: through 6.2.4; 5.6.50, 5.6.51, 5.6.52, 5.6.53, 5.6.54, 5.6.55 (+32)

References

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/03/7
• http://www.swi-prolog.org/git/pl.git/commit/b2c88972e7515ada025e97e7d3ce3e34f81cf33e
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891577
• https://lists.iai.uni-bonn.de/pipermail/swi-prolog/2012/009428.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/03/7
• http://www.swi-prolog.org/git/pl.git/commit/b2c88972e7515ada025e97e7d3ce3e34f81cf33e
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891577
• https://lists.iai.uni-bonn.de/pipermail/swi-prolog/2012/009428.html

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