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CVE-2010-4051

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 40.00% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2011-01-13 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

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CVE
CVE-2010-4051
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5
EPSS
40.00%

Original NVD Description

The regcomp implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.11.3, and 2.12.x through 2.12.2, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a regular expression containing adjacent bounded repetitions that bypass the intended RE_DUP_MAX limitation, as demonstrated by a {10,}{10,}{10,}{10,}{10,} sequence in the proftpd.gnu.c exploit for ProFTPD, related to a "RE_DUP_MAX overflow."