CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0886

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2001-12-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-12-21
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Buffer overflow in glob function of glibc allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a glob pattern that ends in a brace "{" character.

Affected configurations

• debian debian linux 2.1 • redhat linux (<= 7.2) • redhat linux 6.2 • redhat linux 7.0 • redhat linux 7.1

References