CVE-2011-1659

glibc < 2.13 - Denial of Service via Integer Overflow in fnmatch

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (13)

Core 13
Core References
Exploit, Patch x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681054
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/46397
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/44353
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025450
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66819
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:178
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:179
Exploit, Patch x_refsource_confirm
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12583

Scores

EPSS 0.0248
EPSS Percentile 85.5%

Details

CWE
CWE-189
Status published
Products (50)
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
... and 40 more
Published Apr 08, 2011
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026