CVE-2013-0242

medium

Published 2013-02-08 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2.17-2`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2.17-2`
debian	forky	fixed	`2.17-2`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.17-2`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.17-2`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
gnu	glibc	`2.17`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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