Vulnerabilities > CVE-2010-4756 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in GNU Glibc
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
SINGLE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
The glob implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via crafted glob expressions that do not match any pathnames, as demonstrated by glob expressions in STAT commands to an FTP daemon, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2632.
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2013-1251-1.NASL description This collective update for the GNU C library (glibc) provides the following fixes and enhancements : Security issues fixed : - Fix stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results. (bnc#813121, CVE-2013-1914) - Fix a different stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results. (bnc#828637) - Fix array overflow in floating point parser [bnc#775690] (CVE-2012-3480) - Fix strtod integer/buffer overflows [bnc#775690] (CVE-2012-3480) - Add patches for fix overflows in vfprintf. [bnc #770891, CVE-2012-3405, CVE-2012-3406] - Fix buffer overflow in glob. (bnc#691365) (CVE-2010-4756) - Flush stream in addmntent, to catch errors like reached file size limits. [bnc #676178, CVE-2011-1089] Bugs fixed : - Fix locking in _IO_cleanup. (bnc#796982) - Fix resolver when first query fails, but seconds succeeds. [bnc #767266] Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2015-05-20 plugin id 83594 published 2015-05-20 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/83594 title SUSE SLES11 Security Update : glibc (SUSE-SU-2013:1251-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2013-1287-1.NASL description This collective update for the GNU C library (glibc) provides the following fixes and enhancements : Security issues fixed : - Fix stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results. (bnc#813121, CVE-2013-1914) - Fixed another stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results (bnc#828637) - Fix buffer overflow in glob. (bnc#691365) (CVE-2010-4756) - Fix array overflow in floating point parser [bnc#775690] (CVE-2012-3480) - Fix strtod integer/buffer overflows [bnc#775690] (CVE-2012-3480) Make addmntent return errors also for cached streams. [bnc #676178, CVE-2011-1089] - Fix overflows in vfprintf. [bnc #770891, CVE 2012-3406] - Add vfprintf-nargs.diff for possible format string overflow. [bnc #747768, CVE-2012-0864] - Check values from file header in __tzfile_read. [bnc #735850, CVE-2009-5029] Also several bugs were fixed : - Fix locking in _IO_cleanup. (bnc#796982) - Fix memory leak in execve. (bnc#805899) Fix nscd timestamps in logging (bnc#783196) - Fix perl script error message (bnc#774467) - Fall back to localhost if no nameserver defined (bnc#818630) - Fix incomplete results from nscd. [bnc #753756] - Fix a deadlock in dlsym in case the symbol isn last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2015-05-20 plugin id 83597 published 2015-05-20 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/83597 title SUSE SLES10 Security Update : glibc (SUSE-SU-2013:1287-1)
Packetstorm
| data source | https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/101052/libcglob3-exhaust.txt |
| id | PACKETSTORM:101052 |
| last seen | 2016-12-05 |
| published | 2011-05-03 |
| reporter | Maksymilian Arciemowicz |
| source | https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/101052/Multiple-Vendors-libc-glob-3-GLOB_BRACE-GLOB_LIMIT-Memory-Exhaustion.html |
| title | Multiple Vendors libc/glob(3) GLOB_BRACE|GLOB_LIMIT Memory Exhaustion |