CVE-2011-1659

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Summary

CVECVE-2011-1659
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2011-04-08 15:17:28 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionInteger overflow in posix/fnmatch.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.13 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long UTF8 string that is used in an fnmatch call with a crafted pattern argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1071.

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-189 | 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 2.0 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.3 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.4 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.5 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.0.6 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
Application Gnu Glibc 2.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.2.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.2.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.2.3 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.2.4 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.2.5 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.3 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.3.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.3.10 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.3.2 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.3.3 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.3.4 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.3.5 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.3.6 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.4 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.5 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.5.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.6 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.6.1 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.7 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.8 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc 2.9 All All All
Application Gnu Glibc All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Bug 12583 – fnmatch: integer overflow in computation of the required memory af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceware.org Exploit, Patch
GNU C Library Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
sourceware.org Git - glibc.git/commit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceware.org
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2011:179 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
VMSA-2011-0012.2 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vmware.com
Security Advisories | Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
681054 – (CVE-2011-1071, CVE-2011-1659) CVE-2011-1071 CVE-2011-1659 glibc: fnmatch() alloca()-based memory corruption flaw af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit, Patch
Glibc Integer Overflow in fnmatch() Lets Remote Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
Issue 48733 - chromium - Crash in third_party xdg_mime library when unable to handle long file paths - An open-source browser project to help move the web forward. - Google Project Hosting af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 code.google.com Exploit
Security: I got accidental code execution via glibc?! af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com Exploit
sourceware.org Git - glibc.git/commit MITRE sourceware.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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