CVE-2013-4237

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-10-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

sysdeps/posix/readdir_r.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.18 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) NTFS or (2) CIFS image.

Affected products

GNU C Library (glibc): through 2.18; 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+20)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/55113
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:283
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/12/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61729
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1991-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=995839
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14699
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=91ce40854d0b7f865cf5024ef95a8026b76096f3
http://secunia.com/advisories/55113
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:283
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/12/8

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