Description
Buffer overflow in the extend_buffers function in the regular expression matcher (posix/regexec.c) in glibc, possibly 2.17 and earlier, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via crafted multibyte characters.
Affected products
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n/aaffected
References
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0008.html ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/81707 ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1605.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55113 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1991-1 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57638 ↗
- http://osvdb.org/89747 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51951 ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028063 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/30/5 ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04 ↗
- http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-01/msg00967.html ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0769.html ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:163 ↗
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15078 ↗