National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1659

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681054

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681054

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=8126d90480fa3e0c5c5cd0d02cb1c93174b45485

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=8126d90480fa3e0c5c5cd0d02cb1c93174b45485

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12583

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12583

External Source: XF

Name: gnuclibrary-fnmatch-dos(66819)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/66819

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1025450

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025450

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Console

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2011:179

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:179

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2011:178

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:178

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 46397

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/46397

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 44353

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/44353

External Source: MISC

Name: http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-got-accidental-code-execution-via.html

Hyperlink:http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-got-accidental-code-execution-via.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=48733

Hyperlink:http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=48733