CVE-2010-3192: GNU Glibc

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• GNU Glibc: before 2.26 (fixed in 2.26)

Published 2010-10-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.