Debian DSA-103-1 : glibc - buffer overflow

A buffer overflow has been found in the globbing code for glibc. This is the code which is used to glob patterns for filenames and is commonly used in applications like shells and FTP servers. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : glibc (MDKSA-2001:095)

Flavio Veloso found an overflowable buffer problem in earlier versions of the glibc glob3 implementation. It may be possible to exploit some programs that pass input to the glibc glob function in a manner that can be modified by the user. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

CVE-2001-0886

Buffer overflow in glob function of glibc allows attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a glob pattern that ends in a brace "" character...

CVE-2001-0886

Mode C: The CVE-2001-0886 issue is a buffer overflow in the glibc glob(3) implementation. The vulnerability affects glibc’s globbing code and can lead to a crash (DoS) and potentially arbitrary code execution when processing a glob pattern that ends with the brace character “{”. The OpenVAS/DEBIA...