UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20796
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Summary:
Details: 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.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20796, https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2019-01/msg00108.html, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20796
Affected packages
Package
Name: eglibc
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+esm4?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -None
Affected versions
2.17-93ubuntu4
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