CVE-2011-1659
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Apr 8, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Apr 8, 2011
Description
Integer overflow in posix/fnmatch.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.13 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long UTF8 string that is used in an fnmatch call with a crafted pattern argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1071.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681054
- 20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Consolemailing-list
- 46397third-party-advisory
- 44353third-party-advisory
- 1025450vdb-entry
- gnuclibrary-fnmatch-dos(66819)vdb-entry
- MDVSA-2011:178vendor-advisory
- http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-got-accidental-code-execution-via.html
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=48733
- MDVSA-2011:179vendor-advisory
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12583
- http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8126d90480fa3e0c5c5cd0d02cb1c93174b45485
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