{"id":"CVE-2010-4052","details":"Stack consumption vulnerability in 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 (resource exhaustion) via a regular expression containing adjacent repetition operators, as demonstrated by a {10,}{10,}{10,}{10,} sequence in the proftpd.gnu.c exploit for ProFTPD.","modified":"2026-04-10T03:41:28.449145Z","published":"2011-01-13T19:00:02Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/42547"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Jan/78"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/93"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8003"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45233"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645859"},{"type":"FIX","url":"http://cxib.net/stuff/proftpd.gnu.c"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://securitytracker.com/id?1024832"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15935"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/912279"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515589/100/0/threaded"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}