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CVE-2010-4756
Published: Mar 2, 2011
Modified: Nov 3, 2025
PUBLISHED
Description
The glob implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via crafted glob expressions that do not match any pathnames, as demonstrated by glob expressions in STAT commands to an FTP daemon, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2632.
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References
20101007 Multiple Vendors libc/glob(3) resource exhaustion (+0day remote ftpd-anon)
third-party-advisory
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http://securityreason.com/exploitalert/9223
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http://cxib.net/stuff/glob-0day.c
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4756
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681681
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