Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting nscd package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.91% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-NSCD-1326303
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed20 Mar 2019

Introduced: 20 Mar 2019

CVE-2009-5155  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 nscd.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nscd package and not the nscd package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.28, parse_reg_exp in posix/regcomp.c misparses alternatives, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) or trigger an incorrect result by attempting a regular-expression match.