Uncontrolled Recursion Vulnerability in GNU C Library (glibc) through 2.29

CVE-2018-20796 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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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