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CVE-2010-4756

The glob implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via crafted glob expressions that do not match any pathnames, as demonstrated by glob expressions in STAT commands to an FTP daemon, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2632.

Published

2011-03-02T20:00:01.037

Last Modified

2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 4.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-399

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	gnu	glibc	*	Yes

References

http://cxib.net/stuff/glob-0day.c Exploit ([email protected])
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/89 Exploit ([email protected])
http://securityreason.com/exploitalert/9223 Exploit ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681681 ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4756 ([email protected])
http://cxib.net/stuff/glob-0day.c Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/89 Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://securityreason.com/exploitalert/9223 Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681681 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4756 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)