CVE-2011-1659
N/A
Published: April 8, 2011 at 03:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:29 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorGlibc
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
Description
Integer 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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (13)
x_refsource_CONFIRMx_refsource_MISCExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=48733x_refsource_MISCExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-got-accidental-code-execution-via.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12583Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:178Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:179Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-189
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