CVE-2011-1659
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 2.9%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 2.9% (87th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-1659)
- Published
- April 8, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-1659 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gnu / glibc
- gnu / glibc
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References
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=48733(Exploit)
- http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-got-accidental-code-execution-via.html(Exploit)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44353
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46397
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12583(Exploit, Patch)
- http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8126d90480fa3e0c5c5cd0d02cb1c93174b45485
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:178
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:179
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025450
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681054(Exploit, Patch)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66819
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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