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CVE-2013-0242

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Description

Buffer overflow in the extend_buffers function in the regular expression matcher (posix/regexec.c) in glibc, possibly 2.17 and earlier, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via crafted multibyte characters.

References

http://osvdb.org/89747

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0769.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1605.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/51951

http://secunia.com/advisories/55113

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15078

http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-01/msg00967.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:163

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/30/5

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57638

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028063

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1991-1

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0008.html

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/81707

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2013-02-08

Updated: 2017-08-29

Type: CWE-119

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: MEDIUM

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