CVE-2010-4756 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2010-4756?

CVE-2010-4756 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Gnu Glibc, 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 the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 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-2010-4756?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Gnu Glibc.

How do I fix CVE-2010-4756?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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-2010-4756 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4756 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-38437, DEBIAN-CVE-2010-4756, GHSA-x2r9-jfjp-jvp9, MINI-7w58-rgjp-q5qv, MINI-8fq4-p7r9-vcm5, MINI-8v7p-qh7g-9jg6.