Uncontrolled Recursion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package glibc Open this link in a new tab


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    EPSS 0.11% (44th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1904-GLIBC-532356
  • published 26 Feb 2019
  • disclosed 26 Feb 2019

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc package and not the glibc 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 '(|)(\1\1)*' in grep, a different issue than CVE-2018-20796. NOTE: the software maintainer disputes that this is a vulnerability because the behavior occurs only with a crafted pattern