# CVE-2010-2632: Denial of service in n/a

> Remote authenticated attackers can cause denial of service in Oracle Solaris FTP server via crafted glob expressions consuming CPU and memory.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 19 Jan 2011
- **Updated:** 7 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-3h26-w882-gmrp

## What is CVE-2010-2632?

CVE-2010-2632 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Sunos, published on 19 Jan 2011. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in the FTP Server in Oracle Solaris 8, 9, 10, and 11 Express allows remote attackers to affect availability. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the January 2011 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from a reliable researcher that this is an issue in the glob implementation in libc that allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via crafted glob expressions that do not match any pathnames.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-2632?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Sun Sunos.

## How do I fix CVE-2010-2632?

No fix has been published for CVE-2010-2632 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2010-2632 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-2632 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code:

- libc/glob(3) - Resource Exhaustion / Remote ftpd-anonymous (Denial of Service) (exploitdb)

## Other vulnerabilities in Sun Sunos

- [CVE-2010-4435](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-4435/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2008-4619](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-4619/): Denial of service in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2008-2144](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2144/): Other in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2008-1369](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-1369/): Misconfiguration in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2001-1583](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2001-1583/): Command injection in n/a (critical 10.0)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2010-2632 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2010-2632 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Sunos, published on 19 Jan 2011. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-2632 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Sun Sunos. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-2632/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-2632/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-2632
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2632
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2010-2632

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