CVE-2010-4052: 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.
Overview
- Severity
- N/A
- Exploit Status
- Not Exploited
- Patch Tuesday
- 2026-Aug
- Released
- 2026-08-07
- EPSS Score
- 51.30% (percentile: 98.8%)
Affected Products (2)
Open Source Software
- azl3 smartmontools 7.4-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
Mariner
- azl3 augeas 1.12.0-6 on Azure Linux 3.0
Revision History
- 2026-08-07: Information published.