6.8 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.018 Low
EPSS
Percentile
87.9%
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.”
cxib.net/stuff/proftpd.gnu.c
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Jan/78
secunia.com/advisories/42547
securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/93
securityreason.com/securityalert/8003
securitytracker.com/id?1024832
www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/912279
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515589/100/0/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/bid/45233
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645859
lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc713534b10f9daeee2e0990239fa407e2118e4aa9e88a7041177497c%40%3Cissues.guacamole.apache.org%3E
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15935