K12793 : GNU C Library vulnerability CVE-2010-4051

Security Advisory Description

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F5 products and versions that have been evaluated for this Security Advisory

BIG-IP WebAccelerator| None| 9.x
10.x
11.x
BIG-IP PSM| None| 9.x
10.x
11.x
BIG-IP WOM| None| 10.x
11.x
BIG-IP APM| None| 10.x
11.x
BIG-IP Edge Gateway| None| 10.x
11.x
BIG-IP Analytics
| None| 11.x
BIG-IP AFM
| None| 11.x
BIG-IP PEM
| None| 11.x
BIG-IP AAM| None| 11.x
FirePass| None| 5.x
6.x
7.x
Enterprise Manager| None| 1.x
2.x
3.x
ARX| None| 3.x
4.x
5.x
6.x

Vulnerability description and product information

The regcomp implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) attack. This applies to GNU C Library versions through 2.11.3, and also versions 2.12.x through 2.12.2.

Information about this advisory is available at the following locations:

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<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2010-4051&gt;

<http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/912279&gt;