Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting uclibc package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.08% (64th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-UCLIBC-279255
  • published16 Jun 2017
  • disclosed16 Jun 2017

Introduced: 16 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-9729  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:8 uclibc.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream uclibc package and not the uclibc package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In uClibc 0.9.33.2, there is stack exhaustion (uncontrolled recursion) in the check_dst_limits_calc_pos_1 function in misc/regex/regexec.c when processing a crafted regular expression.