Buffer Overflow Affecting glibc package, versions [,2.30)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.3% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLIBC-2319084
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed26 Feb 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Feb 2019

CVE-2018-20796  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade glibc to version 2.30 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow. 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.

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