Integer Overflow in fnmatch.c in glibc 2.13 and earlier

CVE-2011-1659 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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