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CVE-2013-0242
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
Buffer overflow in the extend_buffers function in the regular expression matcher (posix/regexec.c) in glibc, possibly 2.17 and earlier, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via crafted multibyte characters..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- Medium
- Base Score
- 5/10
- Exploit Score
- 10/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 2.9/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- None
- Availability Impact
- Partial
- Integrity Impact
- None
Products Affected
CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
---|---|---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51951
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57638
- http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-01/msg00967.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028063
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/30/5
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15078
- http://osvdb.org/89747
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0769.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:163
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55113
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1991-1
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1605.html
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0008.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/81707