CVE-2010-4756
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.0EPSS 2.6%EU EUVD
The glob implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via crafted glob expressions that do not match any pathnames, as demonstrated by glob expressions in STAT commands to an FTP daemon, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2632.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 2.6% (86th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-4721)
- Published
- March 2, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-4721 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on November 3, 2025.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gnu / glibc
References
- http://cxib.net/stuff/glob-0day.c(Exploit)
- http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/89(Exploit)
- http://securityreason.com/exploitalert/9223(Exploit)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681681
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4756
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241108-0002/
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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