CVE-2010-4754 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2010-4754?

CVE-2010-4754 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 2 Mar 2011. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The glob implementation in libc in FreeBSD 7.3 and 8.1, NetBSD 5.0.2, and OpenBSD 4.7, and Libsystem in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.8, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via crafted glob expressions that do not match any pathnames, as demonstrated by glob expressions in STAT commands to an FTP daemon, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2632.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4754?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Freebsd Freebsd, Netbsd Netbsd, Openbsd Openbsd.

How do I fix CVE-2010-4754?

No fix has been published for CVE-2010-4754 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2010-4754 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4754 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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