CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-1659

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2011-04-08 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-04-08
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-189

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.

Affected configurations

• gnu glibc (<= 2.13) • gnu glibc 1.00 • gnu glibc 1.01 • gnu glibc 1.02 • gnu glibc 1.03 • gnu glibc 1.04 • gnu glibc 1.05 • gnu glibc 1.06 • gnu glibc 1.07 • gnu glibc 1.08 • gnu glibc 1.09 • gnu glibc 1.09.1 • gnu glibc 2.0 • gnu glibc 2.0.1 • gnu glibc 2.0.2 • gnu glibc 2.0.3 • gnu glibc 2.0.4 • gnu glibc 2.0.5 • gnu glibc 2.0.6 • gnu glibc 2.1 • gnu glibc 2.1.1 • gnu glibc 2.1.1.6 • gnu glibc 2.1.2 • gnu glibc 2.1.3 • gnu glibc 2.1.3.10 • gnu glibc 2.1.9 • gnu glibc 2.2 • gnu glibc 2.2.1 • gnu glibc 2.2.2 • gnu glibc 2.2.3 • gnu glibc 2.2.4 • gnu glibc 2.2.5 • gnu glibc 2.3 • gnu glibc 2.3.1 • gnu glibc 2.3.2 • gnu glibc 2.3.3 • gnu glibc 2.3.4 • gnu glibc 2.3.5 • gnu glibc 2.3.6 • gnu glibc 2.3.10 • gnu glibc 2.4 • gnu glibc 2.5 • gnu glibc 2.5.1 • gnu glibc 2.6 • gnu glibc 2.6.1 • gnu glibc 2.7 • gnu glibc 2.8 • gnu glibc 2.9 • gnu glibc 2.10 • gnu glibc 2.10.1 • gnu glibc 2.10.2 • gnu glibc 2.11 • gnu glibc 2.11.1 • gnu glibc 2.11.2 • gnu glibc 2.11.3 • gnu glibc 2.12.0 • gnu glibc 2.12.1 • gnu glibc 2.12.2

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References