Security Advisory

CVE-2018-20796

7.5
HIGH

Vulnerability 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.
Published Date February 26, 2019
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory