CVE - CVE-2010-4052

CVE-ID
CVE-2010-4052	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
Stack consumption vulnerability in 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 (resource exhaustion) via a regular expression containing adjacent repetition operators, as demonstrated by a {10,}{10,}{10,}{10,} sequence in the proftpd.gnu.c exploit for ProFTPD.
References
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BID:45233 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45233 BUGTRAQ:20110107 GNU libc/regcomp(3) Multiple Vulnerabilities URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515589/100/0/threaded CERT-VN:VU#912279 URL:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/912279 EXPLOIT-DB:15935 URL:http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15935 FULLDISC:20110107 GNU libc/regcomp(3) Multiple Vulnerabilities URL:http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Jan/78 MISC:http://cxib.net/stuff/proftpd.gnu.c MISC:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645859 SECTRACK:1024832 URL:http://securitytracker.com/id?1024832 SECUNIA:42547 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/42547 SREASON:8003 URL:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8003 SREASONRES:20110107 GNU libc/regcomp(3) Multiple Vulnerabilities URL:http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/93
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20101022	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.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20101022)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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