Improper Data Handling Affecting glibc package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.44% (75th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-GLIBC-338160
- published 26 Feb 2019
- disclosed 26 Feb 2019
Introduced: 26 Feb 2019
CVE-2009-5155 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:9
glibc
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc
package and not the glibc
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.28, parse_reg_exp in posix/regcomp.c misparses alternatives, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) or trigger an incorrect result by attempting a regular-expression match.