CVE-2011-1659

Published: April 8, 2011Last modified: November 10, 2023

Description

Integer overflow in posix/fnmatch.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.13 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long UTF8 string that is used in an fnmatch call with a crafted pattern argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1071.

Status

References

• http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=48733
• http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-got-accidental-code-execution-via.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/44353
• http://secunia.com/advisories/46397
• http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12583
• http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8126d90480fa3e0c5c5cd0d02cb1c93174b45485
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:178
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:179
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025450
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681054
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66819