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Out-of-Bounds Affecting glibc package, versions <2.17-2

low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.9% (83rd percentile)
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NVD
5.3 medium
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4.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-GLIBC-531946
  • published 8 Feb 2013
  • disclosed 8 Feb 2013
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Introduced: 8 Feb 2013

CVE-2013-0242 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-119 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 glibc to version 2.17-2 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.

Buffer overflow in the extend_buffers function in the regular expression matcher (posix/regexec.c) in glibc, possibly 2.17 and earlier, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via crafted multibyte characters.

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