cve/2011/CVE-2011-1071.md

CVE-2011-1071

Description

The GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.12.2 and Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC) allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a long UTF8 string that is used in an fnmatch call, aka a "stack extension attack," a related issue to CVE-2010-2898, CVE-2010-1917, and CVE-2007-4782, as originally reported for use of this library by Google Chrome.

POC

Reference

• http://bugs.debian.org/615120
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html

Github

• https://github.com/mudongliang/LinuxFlaw
• https://github.com/oneoy/cve-