CVE-2010-4051 Affecting glibc package, versions <2.19-4


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
1.82% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-GLIBC-517034
  • published13 Jan 2011
  • disclosed13 Jan 2011

Introduced: 13 Jan 2011

CVE-2010-4051  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 glibc to version 2.19-4 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:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 (application crash) via a regular expression containing adjacent bounded repetitions that bypass the intended RE_DUP_MAX limitation, as demonstrated by a {10,}{10,}{10,}{10,}{10,} sequence in the proftpd.gnu.c exploit for ProFTPD, related to a "RE_DUP_MAX overflow."

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