CVE-2010-4756

medium

Description

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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681681

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4756

http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/89

http://securityreason.com/exploitalert/9223

Details

Published: 2011-03-02

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium