[Bug 779391] Re: CVE-2011-1764: format string vulnerability

Kees Cook kees at ubuntu.com
Mon May 9 13:26:27 UTC 2011


Just as a note, due to Ubuntu's default compiler flags[1], this
vulnerability is "only" a denial-of-service and does not seem to result
in arbitrary code execution.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CompilerFlags

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Title:
  CVE-2011-1764: format string vulnerability



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