Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting glibc package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.62% (79th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-GLIBC-338175
- published 26 Feb 2019
- disclosed 26 Feb 2019
Introduced: 26 Feb 2019
CVE-2018-20796 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) 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.