Vulnerability in GNU Glibc
CVE-2011-1659
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.029 (86.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 86th percentile — 86.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.029 · newest: 0.029 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- GNU Glibc — versions 1.00, 1.01, 1.02
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Patch)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/46397 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/44353 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66819 (vdb-entry)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-got-accidental-code-execution-via.html (Exploit)
- www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
- code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail (Exploit)