CVE-2010-4052
EPSS 10.0%Published: 1/13/2011Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
Stack consumption vulnerability in 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 (resource exhaustion) via a regular expression containing adjacent repetition operators, as demonstrated by a {10,}{10,}{10,}{10,} sequence in the proftpd.gnu.c exploit for ProFTPD.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/glibcfrom 0, < 2.19-4