Upstream information

CVE-2011-1071 at MITRE

Description

The GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.12.2 and Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC) allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a long UTF8 string that is used in an fnmatch call, aka a "stack extension attack," a related issue to CVE-2010-2898, CVE-2010-1917, and CVE-2007-4782, as originally reported for use of this library by Google Chrome.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5.1
Vector AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 625835 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 860905 [VERIFIED / INVALID]

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List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References

Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for SAP Enterprise Search glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4-LTSS glibc Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1-LTSS glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP1 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Business All-in-One 11 SP1 glibc Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1 glibc Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 07:51:12 2013
CVE page last modified: Tue Dec 17 19:15:24 2024