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title: "CVE-2012-4415\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2012-4415

Publication date 1 October 2012

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## 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.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-4415?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| guacamole-server | 17.04 zesty | Not affected |
| 16.10 yakkety | Not affected |
| 16.04 LTS xenial | Not affected |
| 15.10 wily | Not affected |
| 15.04 vivid | Ignored end of life |
| 14.10 utopic | Ignored end of life |
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release |
| 12.04 LTS precise | Not in release |
| libguac | 17.04 zesty | Not in release |
| 16.10 yakkety | Not in release |
| 16.04 LTS xenial | Not in release |
| 15.10 wily | Not affected |
| 15.04 vivid | Ignored end of life |
| 14.10 utopic | Ignored end of life |
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release |
| 13.10 saucy | Ignored end of life |
| 13.04 raring | Ignored end of life |
| 12.10 quantal | Ignored end of life |
| 12.04 LTS precise | Ignored end of life |
| 11.10 oneiric | Not in release |
| 11.04 natty | Not in release |
| 10.04 LTS lucid | Not in release |
| 8.04 LTS hardy | Not in release |

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* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## Notes

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### [sbeattie](https://launchpad.net/~sbeattie)

looks to be stack-based overflow

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4415)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4415)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2012-4415)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4415)

### Other references

* <http://guac-dev.org/trac/changeset/7dcefa744b4a38825619c00ae8b47e5bae6e38c0/libguac>
* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-4415>