National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-0418

Overview

The glob implementation in Pure-FTPd before 1.0.32, and in libc in NetBSD 5.1, does not properly expand expressions containing curly brackets, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted FTP STAT command.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/glob.c.diff?r1=1.27&r2=1.28&f=h

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/glob.c.diff?r1=1.27&r2=1.28&f=h

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/glob.c#rev1.28

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/glob.c#rev1.28

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704283

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704283

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-1273

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1273

External Source: BID

Name: 47671

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47671

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd/news

Hyperlink:http://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd/news

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2011:094

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:094

External Source: SREASON

Name: 8228

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8228

External Source: SREASONRES

Name: 20110502 Multiple Vendors libc/glob(3) GLOB_BRACE|GLOB_LIMIT memory exhaustion

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/97