Stack Consumption Vulnerability in GNU C Library (glibc) Allows Denial of Service

CVE-2010-4052 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Stack consumption vulnerability in the regcomp implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.11.3, and 2.12.x through 2.12.2, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a regular expression containing adjacent repetition operators, as demonstrated by a {10,}{10,}{10,}{10,} sequence in the proftpd.gnu.c exploit for ProFTPD.

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