CVE-2011-2168

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-05-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the glob implementation in libc in OpenBSD before 4.9 might allow context-dependent attackers to have an unspecified impact via a crafted string, related to the GLOB_APPEND and GLOB_DOOFFS flags, a different issue than CVE-2011-0418.

Affected products

OpenBSD: through 4.8; 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 (+22)

References

http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/97
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/glob.c#rev1.35
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/glob.c.diff?r1=1.34%3Br2=1.35%3Bf=h
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48004
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/97
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/glob.c#rev1.35
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/gen/glob.c.diff?r1=1.34%3Br2=1.35%3Bf=h
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48004

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