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DEBIAN-CVE-2013-0242

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-0242 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS 4.0
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:12glibc0, 0, 0
Debian:14glibc0, 0, 0
Debian:11glibc0, 0, 0
Debian:13glibc0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Feb 8, 2013 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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