Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting glibc package, versions *


low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.62% (79th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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Red Hat
5.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-GLIBC-338175
  • published 26 Feb 2019
  • disclosed 26 Feb 2019

How 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) through 2.29, check_dst_limits_calc_pos_1 in posix/regexec.c has Uncontrolled Recursion, as demonstrated by '(\227|)(\1\1|t1|\\2537)+' in grep.