CVE-2010-4051
EPSS 4.7%Published: 1/13/2011Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2010-4051
Description
The regcomp implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.11.3, and 2.12.x through 2.12.2, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a regular expression containing adjacent bounded repetitions that bypass the intended RE_DUP_MAX limitation, as demonstrated by a {10,}{10,}{10,}{10,}{10,} sequence in the proftpd.gnu.c exploit for ProFTPD, related to a "RE_DUP_MAX overflow."
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/glibcfrom 0, < 2.19-4