Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in the GNU C Library, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
GNU C Library "fnmatch()" Integer Overflow Denial of Service
Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA44353
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-04-27
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in the GNU C Library, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error within
the implementation of the "fnmatch()" function, which can be
exploited to cause a crash.
Note: This is related to SA43492.
The vulnerability is reported in version 2.13. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT repository.
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PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Red Hat
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Red Hat Bug #681054:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681054
GNU C Library Bug #12583:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12583
GIT commit:
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=8126d90480fa3e0c5c5cd0d02cb1c93174b45485
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