CVE-2010-4052

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
13/01/2011
Last modified:
10/10/2018

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in the regcomp implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.11.3, and 2.12.x through 2.12.2, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a regular expression containing adjacent repetition operators, as demonstrated by a {10,}{10,}{10,}{10,} sequence in the proftpd.gnu.c exploit for ProFTPD.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.02:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.03:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.05:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.06:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.07:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.08:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.09:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.09.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.1.1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*