VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-1071

medium
Published 2011-04-08 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.1

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-17120 dos multiple
Simon Berry-Byrne · 2011-02-25

GNU glibc < 2.12.2 - 'fnmatch()' Stack Corruption

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.11.2-12
sid Fixed 2.11.2-12
forky Fixed 2.11.2-12
bullseye Fixed 2.11.2-12
bookworm Fixed 2.11.2-12

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnueglibc
gnuglibc{"endIncluding":"2.12.1"}
gnuglibc1.00
gnuglibc1.01
gnuglibc1.02
gnuglibc1.03
gnuglibc1.04
gnuglibc1.05
gnuglibc1.06
gnuglibc1.07
gnuglibc1.08
gnuglibc1.09
gnuglibc1.09.1
gnuglibc2.0
gnuglibc2.0.1
gnuglibc2.0.2
gnuglibc2.0.3
gnuglibc2.0.4
gnuglibc2.0.5
gnuglibc2.0.6
gnuglibc2.1
gnuglibc2.1.1
gnuglibc2.1.1.6
gnuglibc2.1.2
gnuglibc2.1.3
gnuglibc2.1.3.10
gnuglibc2.1.9
gnuglibc2.2
gnuglibc2.2.1
gnuglibc2.2.2
gnuglibc2.2.3
gnuglibc2.2.4
gnuglibc2.2.5
gnuglibc2.3
gnuglibc2.3.1
gnuglibc2.3.2
gnuglibc2.3.3
gnuglibc2.3.4
gnuglibc2.3.5
gnuglibc2.3.6
gnuglibc2.3.10
gnuglibc2.4
gnuglibc2.5
gnuglibc2.5.1
gnuglibc2.6
gnuglibc2.6.1
gnuglibc2.7
gnuglibc2.8
gnuglibc2.9
gnuglibc2.10
gnuglibc2.10.1
gnuglibc2.10.2
gnuglibc2.11
gnuglibc2.11.1
gnuglibc2.11.2
gnuglibc2.11.3
gnuglibc2.12.0

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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