Home > Vulnerability Database > CVE-2011-1071

Mend.io Vulnerability Database

CVE-2011-1071

Date: April 8, 2011

The GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.12.2 and Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC) allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a long UTF8 string that is used in an fnmatch call, aka a "stack extension attack," a related issue to CVE-2010-2898, CVE-2010-1917, and CVE-2007-4782, as originally reported for use of this library by Google Chrome.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.6

Related Resources (28)

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

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46563

Url: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11883

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

Url: http://bugs.debian.org/615120

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1071

Url: http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f15ce4d8dc139523fe0c273580b604b2453acba6

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0413.html

Url: http://securitytracker.com/id?1025290

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/26/3

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

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0412.html

Url: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Feb/644

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

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/43989

Url: http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8175

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12853

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1071

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

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/11

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0863

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

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/43492

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

Url: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Feb/635

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/15

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/43830

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2011-1071

Severity Score

5.6

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.6
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.1
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
Additional information:

Mend.io Vulnerability Database

We found results for “”

CVE-2011-1071

Date: April 8, 2011

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (28)

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

Do you need more information?