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Uncontrolled Recursion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package eglibc Open this link in a new tab

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.63% (79th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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5.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1404-EGLIBC-347872
  • published 26 Feb 2019
  • disclosed 26 Feb 2019
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Introduced: 26 Feb 2019

CVE-2018-20796 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-674 Open this link in a new tab

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream eglibc package and not the eglibc package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.