CVE-2010-4756
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Mar 2, 2011
- Updated
- Nov 3, 2025
- Reserved
- Mar 2, 2011
Description
The glob implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via crafted glob expressions that do not match any pathnames, as demonstrated by glob expressions in STAT commands to an FTP daemon, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2632.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- 20101007 Multiple Vendors libc/glob(3) resource exhaustion (+0day remote ftpd-anon)third-party-advisory
- http://securityreason.com/exploitalert/9223
- http://cxib.net/stuff/glob-0day.c
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4756
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681681
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241108-0002/
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