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CVE-2013-4237

Published: Oct 9, 2013

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

sysdeps/posix/readdir_r.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.18 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) NTFS or (2) CIFS image.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

third-party-advisory

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[oss-security] 20130812 Re: CVE Request -- glibc: Buffer overwrite when using readdir_r on file systems returning file names longer than NAME_MAX characters

mailing-list

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vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=995839

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vendor-advisory

x_refsource_GENTOO

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=91ce40854d0b7f865cf5024ef95a8026b76096f3

x_refsource_CONFIRM

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14699

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vendor-advisory

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