NetBSD glob(3) GLOB_LIMIT Resource Exhaustion Flaw Lets Remote Users Deny Service
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1024517 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1024517
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CVE Reference:
GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Oct 7 2010
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Impact:
Denial of service via network
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): 5.0.2 and prior versions
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in NetBSD. A remote user can cause denial of service conditions.
A user can supply specially crafted patterns that will not be resource limited by the GLOB_LIMIT setting, causing excessive resource consumption on the target system.
The ftpd and sftp services are affected.
Maksymilian Arciemowicz reported this vulnerability.
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Impact:
A remote user can consume excessive resources on the target system.
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Solution:
The vendor has issued a fix.
The vendor's advisory is available at:
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2010-008.txt.asc
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Vendor URL: ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2010-008.txt.asc (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
State error
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Underlying OS:
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Message History:
None.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:17:05 +0000
Subject: NetBSD
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http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2010-008.txt.asc
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