CVE-2013-0242

Buffer overflow in the extend_buffers function in the regular expression matcher (posix/regexec.c) in glibc, possibly 2.17 and earlier, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via crafted multibyte characters.

Date published : 2013-02-08

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57638

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0008.html