VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2010-4051
CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability40.00%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2011-01-13
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
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 (application crash) via a regular expression containing adjacent bounded repetitions that bypass the intended RE_DUP_MAX limitation, as demonstrated by a {10,}{10,}{10,}{10,}{10,} sequence in the proftpd.gnu.c exploit for ProFTPD, related to a "RE_DUP_MAX overflow."
Primary references
- cve@mitre.org — Patch
- cve@mitre.org — Exploit
- cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Exploit
- cve@mitre.org — Exploit
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org — US Government Resource
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org — Exploit
- cve@mitre.org — Exploit
- cve@mitre.org