CVE-2010-4052

glibc: De-recursivise regular expression engine

Published Jan 13, 2011 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 51.3% KEV · Not listed
Description
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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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-4028 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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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 3:34 AM
Reserved
Oct 22, 2010, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jan 13, 2011, 7:00 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:24 PM
Severity
Public date
Dec 7, 2010, 12:00 AM