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Cent OS: CVE-2013-0242: CESA-2013:0769 (glibc)

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Cent OS: CVE-2013-0242: CESA-2013:0769 (glibc)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/08/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
Modified
07/04/2017

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.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-glibc
  • centos-upgrade-glibc-common
  • centos-upgrade-glibc-devel
  • centos-upgrade-glibc-headers
  • centos-upgrade-glibc-utils
  • centos-upgrade-nscd

References

  • 57638
  • MDVSA-2013:163
  • CVE-2013-0242
  • RHSA-2013:0769
  • RHSA-2013:1605
  • 1028063
  • USN-1991-1
  • glibc-extendbuffers-dos(81707)
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