CVE - CVE-2011-1071

CVE-ID
CVE-2011-1071	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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.
References
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BID:46563 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46563 BUGTRAQ:20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Console URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded CONFIRM:http://bugs.debian.org/615120 CONFIRM:http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=48733 CONFIRM:http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11883 CONFIRM:http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=f15ce4d8dc139523fe0c273580b604b2453acba6 CONFIRM:http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681054 FULLDISC:20110224 glibc and alloca() URL:http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Feb/635 FULLDISC:20110226 Re: glibc and alloca() URL:http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Feb/644 MANDRIVA:MDVSA-2011:178 URL:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:178 MISC:http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-got-accidental-code-execution-via.html MLIST:[oss-security] 20110228 Re: cve request: eglibc memory corruption URL:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/11 MLIST:[oss-security] 20110228 Re: cve request: eglibc memory corruption URL:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/15 MLIST:[oss-security] 20110228 cve request: eglibc memory corruption URL:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/26/3 OVAL:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12853 URL:https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12853 REDHAT:RHSA-2011:0412 URL:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0412.html REDHAT:RHSA-2011:0413 URL:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0413.html SECTRACK:1025290 URL:http://securitytracker.com/id?1025290 SECUNIA:43492 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/43492 SECUNIA:43830 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/43830 SECUNIA:43989 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/43989 SECUNIA:46397 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 SREASON:8175 URL:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8175 VUPEN:ADV-2011-0863 URL:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0863
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20110224	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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Assigned (20110224)
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