Out-of-Bounds Affecting glibc-common package, versions <0:2.12-1.132.el6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.16% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-GLIBCCOMMON-1474678
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed29 Jan 2013

Introduced: 29 Jan 2013

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

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:6 glibc-common to version 0:2.12-1.132.el6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2013:1605.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc-common package and not the glibc-common package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 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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