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CVE-2013-4788

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Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published10/4/2013

Last Modified4/29/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

gnu:eglibcgnu:glibc

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20

References

http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2013-4788.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Sep/23(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:283(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:284(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/15/9(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61183(cve@mitre.org)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04(cve@mitre.org)

http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2013-4788.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Sep/23(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:283(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:284(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/15/9(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61183(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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