CVE-2010-4756: GNU Glibc

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The glob implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 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.

Affected products

• GNU Glibc: any version

Published 2011-03-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.