CVE-2010-4052
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jan 13, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 22, 2010
Description
Stack consumption vulnerability in the regcomp implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.11.3, and 2.12.x through 2.12.2, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a regular expression containing adjacent repetition operators, as demonstrated by a {10,}{10,}{10,}{10,} sequence in the proftpd.gnu.c exploit for ProFTPD.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 42547third-party-advisory
- 1024832vdb-entry
- 20110107 GNU libc/regcomp(3) Multiple Vulnerabilitiesmailing-list
- VU#912279third-party-advisory
- 45233vdb-entry
- 20110107 GNU libc/regcomp(3) Multiple Vulnerabilitiesmailing-list
- http://cxib.net/stuff/proftpd.gnu.c
- 15935exploit
- 8003third-party-advisory
- 20110107 GNU libc/regcomp(3) Multiple Vulnerabilitiesthird-party-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645859
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