CVE-2017-9729

HIGH

uClibc 0.9.33.2 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In uClibc 0.9.33.2, there is stack exhaustion (uncontrolled recursion) in the check_dst_limits_calc_pos_1 function in misc/regex/regexec.c when processing a crafted regular expression.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/16/4

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0108
EPSS Percentile 60.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-674
Status published
Products (1)
uclibc/uclibc 0.9.33.2
Published Jun 16, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026