CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-1659
5.0 MEDIUM
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- 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
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=48733 Exploit
- http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-got-accidental-code-execution-via.html Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44353 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 secunia.com
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12583 Exploit, Patch
- http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8126d90480fa3e0c5c5cd0d02cb1c93174b45485 sourceware.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:178 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:179 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025450 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html www.vmware.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681054 Exploit, Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66819 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=48733 Exploit
- http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-got-accidental-code-execution-via.html Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44353 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 secunia.com
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12583 Exploit, Patch
- http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8126d90480fa3e0c5c5cd0d02cb1c93174b45485 sourceware.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:178 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:179 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025450 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html www.vmware.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681054 Exploit, Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66819 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com