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DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1071

DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1071 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL

The GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.12.2 and Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC) allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a long UTF8 string that is used in an fnmatch call, aka a "stack extension attack," a related issue to CVE-2010-2898, CVE-2010-1917, and CVE-2007-4782, as originally reported for use of this library by Google Chrome.

Risk Scores

CVSS v4.0
9.300000190734863
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:11glibc0, 0, 0
Debian:12glibc0, 0, 0
Debian:13glibc0, 0, 0
Debian:14glibc0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Apr 8, 2011 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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