Resource Management Errors Affecting glibc package, versions <2.11.2-12


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 1.91% (89th percentile)
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NVD
5.6 medium
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Red Hat
5.6 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-GLIBC-356707
  • published 8 Apr 2011
  • disclosed 8 Apr 2011

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 glibc to version 2.11.2-12 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc package and not the glibc package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

The GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.12.2 and Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC) allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a long UTF8 string that is used in an fnmatch call, aka a "stack extension attack," a related issue to CVE-2010-2898, CVE-2010-1917, and CVE-2007-4782, as originally reported for use of this library by Google Chrome.