UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6090

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6090

    Published: 4 Jan 2013Last Modified: 16 Jul 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2012-6090

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-6090, https://lists.iai.uni-bonn.de/pipermail/swi-prolog/2012/009428.html, http://www.swi-prolog.org/git/pl.git/commitdiff/b2c88972e7515ada025e97e7d3ce3e34f81cf33e, http://www.swi-prolog.org/git/pl.git/commit/b2c88972e7515ada025e97e7d3ce3e34f81cf33e, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891577, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/03/7, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6090

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: swi-prolog

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -6.6.4-2ubuntu1

    Affected versions

    6.2.6-7

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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