CVE-2012-4415 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2012-4415?

CVE-2012-4415 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 1 Oct 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-4415?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Guac-Dev Guacamole.

How do I fix CVE-2012-4415?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-4415 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2012-4415 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2012-4415 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Other vulnerabilities in Fedoraproject Fedora

• CVE-2024-4577 PHP-CGI OS Command Injection Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-39226 Grafana Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-5544 VMware ESXi and Horizon DaaS OpenSLP Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-4947 Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2024-4671 Google Chromium Visuals Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6

All Fedoraproject Fedora vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-2prc-vxg2-86hj.