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.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4756
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681681
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4756
• http://cxib.net/stuff/glob-0day.c
• http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/89
• http://securityreason.com/exploitalert/9223