#VU45458 Resource management error in Glibc - CVE-2010-4052 

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#VU45458 Resource management error in Glibc - CVE-2010-4052

Published: January 13, 2011 / Updated: August 11, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU45458
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2010-4052
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available
Vulnerable software:
Glibc
Software vendor:
GNU

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.

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.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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