CVE-2010-4052

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
ProductGnu Glibc
PublishedJan 13, 2011
First seenJan 13, 2011

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
gnu glibc1.00, 1.01, 1.02, 1.03, 1.04, 1.05, 1.06, 1.07, 1.08, 1.09, 1.09.1, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.1.6, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.3.10, 2.1.9, 2.10, 2.10.1, 2.10.2, 2.11, 2.11.1, 2.11.2, 2.11.3, 2.12.0, 2.12.1, 2.12.2—

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