CVE-2001-0886: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in glob function of glibc allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a glob pattern that ends in a brace "{" character.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 2.1 only
• Red Hat Linux: up to and including 7.2; version 6.2 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only

Published 2001-12-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.