CVE-2013-0242 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the extend_buffers function of the glibc regular expression matcher, affecting versions possibly up to 2.17. This flaw allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) by providing specially crafted multibyte characters. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it indicates a medium severity issue with low attack complexity, primarily impacting availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.17CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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