CVE-2010-4052

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Summary

CVECVE-2010-4052
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2011-01-13 19:00:02 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionStack consumption vulnerability in 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 (resource exhaustion) via a regular expression containing adjacent repetition operators, as demonstrated by a {10,}{10,}{10,}{10,} sequence in the proftpd.gnu.c exploit for ProFTPD.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Glibc 1.00 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 1.01 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 1.02 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 1.03 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 1.04 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 1.05 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 1.06 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 1.07 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 1.08 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 1.09 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 1.09.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.1.6 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.3 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.3.10 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.1.9 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.10 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.10.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.10.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.11 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.11.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.11.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.11.3 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.12.0 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.12.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.12.2 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#912279 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
GNU libc/regcomp(3) Multiple Vulnerabilities ( Research Advisory ) - SecurityReason.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com Exploit
GNU Glibc Stack Exhaustion Flaw in regcomp() Lets Remote Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com
GNU libc/regcomp(3) Multiple Vulnerabilities - SecurityReason.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com Exploit
GNU glibc 'regcomp()' Stack Exhaustion Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit
GNU C Library "regcomp()" Stack Overflow Denial of Service - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
GNU libc/regcomp(3) Multiple Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.exploit-db.com
645859 – (CVE-2010-4051, CVE-2010-4052) CVE-2010-4051 CVE-2010-4052 glibc: De-recursivise regular expression engine af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit
All about me - Maksymilian Arciemowicz - cxib.net af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 cxib.net Patch
Full Disclosure: GNU libc/regcomp(3) Multiple Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org Exploit
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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