CVE-2011-1659

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 13 years ago

2011-04-08 15:17:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-09 19:31:00

Affected Software

GNU glibc 1.00

1.00

GNU glibc 1.01

1.01

GNU glibc 1.02

1.02

GNU glibc 1.03

1.03

GNU glibc 1.04

1.04

GNU glibc 1.05

1.05

GNU glibc 1.06

1.06

GNU glibc 1.07

1.07

GNU glibc 1.08

1.08

GNU glibc 1.09

1.09

GNU glibc 1.09.1

1.09.1

GNU glibc 2.0

2.0

GNU glibc 2.0.1

2.0.1

GNU glibc 2.0.2

2.0.2

GNU glibc 2.0.3

2.0.3

GNU glibc 2.0.4

2.0.4

GNU glibc 2.0.5

2.0.5

GNU glibc 2.0.6

2.0.6

GNU glibc 2.1

2.1

GNU glibc 2.1.1

2.1.1

GNU glibc 2.1.1.6

2.1.1.6

GNU glibc 2.1.2

2.1.2

GNU glibc 2.1.3

2.1.3

GNU glibc 2.1.3.10

2.1.3.10

GNU glibc 2.1.9

2.1.9

GNU glibc 2.2

2.2

GNU glibc 2.2.1

2.2.1

GNU glibc 2.2.2

2.2.2

GNU glibc 2.2.3

2.2.3

GNU glibc 2.2.4

2.2.4

GNU glibc 2.2.5

2.2.5

GNU glibc 2.3

2.3

GNU glibc 2.3.1

2.3.1

GNU glibc 2.3.2

2.3.2

GNU glibc 2.3.3

2.3.3

GNU glibc 2.3.4

2.3.4

GNU glibc 2.3.5

2.3.5

GNU glibc 2.3.6

2.3.6

GNU glibc 2.3.10

2.3.10

GNU glibc 2.4

2.4

GNU glibc 2.5

2.5

GNU glibc 2.5.1

2.5.1

GNU glibc 2.6

2.6

GNU glibc 2.6.1

2.6.1

GNU glibc 2.7

2.7

GNU glibc 2.8

2.8

GNU glibc 2.9

2.9

GNU glibc 2.10

2.10

GNU glibc 2.10.1

2.10.1

GNU glibc 2.10.2

2.10.2

GNU glibc 2.11

2.11

GNU glibc 2.11.1

2.11.1

GNU glibc 2.11.2

2.11.2

GNU glibc 2.11.3

2.11.3

GNU glibc 2.12.0

2.12.0

GNU glibc 2.12.1

2.12.1

GNU glibc 2.12.2

2.12.2

GNU glibc

References

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=48733

http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-got-accidental-code-execution-via.html

44353

46397

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12583

http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=8126d90480fa3e0c5c5cd0d02cb1c93174b45485

MDVSA-2011:178

MDVSA-2011:179

20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Console

1025450

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681054

gnuclibrary-fnmatch-dos(66819)

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