CVE-2018-20796 (GCVE-0-2018-20796)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-02-26 02:00
Modified
2024-08-05 12:12
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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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