CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-4237

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2013-10-09 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-10-09
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

sysdeps/posix/readdir_r.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.18 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) NTFS or (2) CIFS image.

Affected configurations

• gnu glibc (<= 2.18) • 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 2.1.9 • gnu glibc 2.10.1 • gnu glibc 2.11 • gnu glibc 2.11.1 • gnu glibc 2.11.2 • gnu glibc 2.11.3 • gnu glibc 2.12.1 • gnu glibc 2.12.2 • gnu glibc 2.13 • gnu glibc 2.14 • gnu glibc 2.14.1 • gnu glibc 2.15 • gnu glibc 2.16 • gnu glibc 2.17

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References