CVE-2010-4052

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515589/100/0/threaded

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/912279

http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15935

http://securitytracker.com/id?1024832

http://secunia.com/advisories/42547

http://cxib.net/stuff/proftpd.gnu.c

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3