CVE-2011-1071

Vulnerability 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.

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References

• http://bugs.debian.org/615120Exploit
• http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=48733Exploit
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/26/3
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/11Exploit
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/15
• http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-got-accidental-code-execution-vExploit
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Feb/635Exploit
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Feb/644Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43492Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43830Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43989Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/46397Vendor Advisory
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8175
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1025290
• http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11883Exploit