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.

EPSS: 0.029 (85.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Gnu Glibc — versions 1.00, 1.01, 1.02
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References