CVE-2012-6129 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2012-6129?

CVE-2012-6129 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 3 Apr 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Stack-based buffer overflow in utp.cpp in libutp, as used in Transmission before 2.74 and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted "micro transport protocol packets."

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-6129?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Transmissionbt Transmission.

How do I fix CVE-2012-6129?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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

Is CVE-2012-6129 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-6129 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6129, GHSA-94q2-v3mg-h9cf.