Upstream information

CVE-2011-1659 at MITRE

Description

Integer overflow in posix/fnmatch.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.13 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long UTF8 string that is used in an fnmatch call with a crafted pattern argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1071.

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
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 625835 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

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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 19:15:33 2024