Medium 4.0Published Mar 2, 2011

CVE-2010-4754The glob implementation in libc in FreeBSD 7.3 and 8.1, NetBSD 5.0.2, and OpenBSD 4.7, and Libsystem in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.8, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (C…

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The glob implementation in libc in FreeBSD 7.3 and 8.1, NetBSD 5.0.2, and OpenBSD 4.7, and Libsystem in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.8, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via crafted glob expressions that do not match any pathnames, as demonstrated by glob expressions in STAT commands to an FTP daemon, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2632.

CVSS: 4.0 MEDIUM (v2.0, NVD)AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness (CWE): CWE-399
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

apple mac_os_x apple:mac_os_x	through 10.6.7	NVD
freebsd freebsd freebsd:freebsd	7.3; 8.1	NVD
netbsd netbsd netbsd:netbsd	5.0.2	NVD
openbsd openbsd openbsd:openbsd	4.7	NVD

References

References

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/glob.3#rev1.30.12.1	patch
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/glob.c#rev1.18.10.1	patch
http://cxib.net/stuff/glob-0day.c	exploit
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2010-008.txt.asc	vendor-advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Jun/msg00000.html
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/89	exploit
http://securityreason.com/exploitalert/9223	exploit
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8116
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4723

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