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LIN6-5310 : Security Advisory - glibc - CVE-2013-0242

Created: Feb 16, 2013    Updated: Mar 10, 2016
Resolved Date: Dec 11, 2013
Previous ID: LIN3-8892
Found In Version: 6.0
Fix Version: 6.0
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 6
Component/s: Userspace

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.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-0242

Workaround

Unknown

Steps to Reproduce

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