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CVE-2010-3192

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2010-10-14 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Certain run-time memory protection mechanisms in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) print argv[0] and backtrace information, which might allow context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory by executing an incorrect program, as demonstrated by a setuid program that contains a stack-based buffer overflow error, related to the __fortify_fail function in debug/fortify_fail.c, and the __stack_chk_fail (aka stack protection) and __chk_fail (aka FORTIFY_SOURCE) implementations.

Affected Platforms

Gnu Glibc

Weakness Type

CWE-200

References