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FreeBSD -- glob(3) related resource exhaustion

Affected packages
7.4	<=	FreeBSD	<	7.4_12
8.3	<=	FreeBSD	<	8.3_6
9.0	<=	FreeBSD	<	9.0_6
9.1	<=	FreeBSD	<	9.1_1

Details

VuXML ID	3c90e093-7c6e-11e2-809b-6c626d99876c
Discovery	2013-02-19
Entry	2013-02-21
Modified	2016-08-09

Problem description:

GLOB_LIMIT is supposed to limit the number of paths to prevent against memory or CPU attacks. The implementation however is insufficient.

[source]

References

CVE Name	CVE-2010-2632
FreeBSD Advisory	SA-13:02.libc

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