CVE-2011-1071

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    CVE-2011-1071

    Published: 8 Apr 2011Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/43492, http://secunia.com/advisories/43830, http://secunia.com/advisories/43989, http://secunia.com/advisories/46397, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:178, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0412.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0413.html, http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0863, http://bugs.debian.org/615120, http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=48733, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/11, http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-got-accidental-code-execution-via.html, http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Feb/635, http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11883, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46563, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681054, http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Feb/644, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681054, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/26/3, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/15, http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8175, http://securitytracker.com/id?1025290, http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f15ce4d8dc139523fe0c273580b604b2453acba6, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12853

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High