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Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting libonig package, versions *

medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.42% (74th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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SUSE
3.3 low
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Red Hat
6.5 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1804-LIBONIG-466539
  • published 10 Sep 2019
  • disclosed 9 Sep 2019
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Introduced: 9 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-16163 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-674 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:18.04 libonig.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libonig package and not the libonig package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

Oniguruma before 6.9.3 allows Stack Exhaustion in regcomp.c because of recursion in regparse.c.

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