CVE-2018-20796

CWE-674 — Uncontrolled Recursion11 documents8 sources
Severity
7.5HIGH
EPSS
1.5%
top 18.93%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
GNU Glibc
Timeline
PublishedFeb 26
Latest updateMay 13

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages1 packages

▶NVDgnu/glibc2.29

Patches

Patch: security.netapp.com ↗Patch: security.netapp.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-7x29-5q3f-f4x2: In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2↗2022-05-13
▶
CVEList
CVE-2018-20796: In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2↗2019-02-26
▶
OSV
CVE-2018-20796: In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2↗2019-02-26
▶

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Red Hat
glibc: uncontrolled recursion in function check_dst_limits_calc_pos_1 in posix/regexec.c↗2019-02-26
▶
Microsoft
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.↗2019-02-12
▶
Red Hat
glibc: uncontrolled recursion in function check_dst_limits_calc_pos_1 in posix/regexec.c↗2019-01-20
▶
Debian
CVE-2018-20796: glibc - In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.29, check_dst_limits_calc_po...↗2018
▶

💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-9192 glibc: uncontrolled recursion in function check_dst_limits_calc_pos_1 in posix/regexec.c↗2019-03-01
▶
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-20796 glibc: uncontrolled recursion in function check_dst_limits_calc_pos_1 in posix/regexec.c↗2019-02-26
▶
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-20796 glibc: uncontrolled recursion in function check_dst_limits_calc_pos_1 in posix/regexec.c [fedora-all]↗2019-02-26
▶
CVE-2018-20796 (HIGH CVSS 7.5) | In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or | cvebase.io