CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-9192

7.5 HIGH Published 2019-02-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-02-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-674

Description

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

Affected configurations

• gnu glibc (<= 2.29)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion weakness

References