#VU110119 Resource management error in Glibc - CVE-2011-1071

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#VU110119 Resource management error in Glibc - CVE-2011-1071

Published: February 13, 2023 / Updated: June 3, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU110119
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-1071
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available
Vulnerable software:
Glibc
Software vendor:
GNU

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

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.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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