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


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.9% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-GLIBC-356781
  • published8 Feb 2013
  • disclosed8 Feb 2013

Introduced: 8 Feb 2013

CVE-2013-0242  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 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:9 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.

CVSS Scores

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