glibc — security advisory
Stack consumption vulnerability in the regcomp implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.11.3, and 2.12.x through 2.12.2, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a regular expression containing adjacent repetition operators, as demonstrated by a {10,}{10,}{10,}{10,} sequence in the proftpd.gnu.c exploit for ProFTPD.
- Products
- glibc
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.19-4
- CVEs
- CVE-2010-4052
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Stack consumption vulnerability in the regcomp implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.11.3, and 2.12.x through 2.12.2, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a regular expression containing adjacent repetition operators, as demonstrated by a {10,}{10,}{10,}{10,} sequence in the proftpd.gnu.c exploit for ProFTPD.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2010-4052
glibc
Fixed versions: 2.19-4
glibc
Fixed versions: 2.19-4
glibc
Fixed versions: 2.19-4
Complete source record
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