Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting glibc package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.44% (76th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-GLIBC-531492
- published 26 Feb 2019
- disclosed 26 Feb 2019
Introduced: 26 Feb 2019
CVE-2018-20796 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:11 glibc.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc package and not the glibc package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.
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://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20796
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K26346590?utm_source=f5support&utm_medium=RSS
- https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=34141
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2019-01/msg00108.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190315-0002/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107160
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-20796
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K26346590?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS