CVE-2010-4756

Severity

40%

Complexity

80%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 13 years ago

2011-03-02 20:00:00

Last updated 13 years ago

2011-03-04 05:00:00

Affected Software

GNU glibc

References

http://cxib.net/stuff/glob-0day.c

Exploit

20101007 Multiple Vendors libc/glob(3) resource exhaustion (+0day remote ftpd-anon)

Exploit

http://securityreason.com/exploitalert/9223

Exploit

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