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CVE-2013-0242

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 2.85%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2013-02-08 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.0. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.

CVE
CVE-2013-0242
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5
EPSS
2.85%

Original NVD Description

Buffer overflow in the extend_buffers function in the regular expression matcher (posix/regexec.c) in glibc, possibly 2.17 and earlier, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via crafted multibyte characters.