5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.009 Low
EPSS
Percentile
82.3%
Buffer overflow in the extend_buffers function in the regular expression
matcher (posix/regexec.c) in glibc, possibly 2.17 and earlier, allows
context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption
and crash) via crafted multibyte characters.
Author | Note |
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sbeattie | infinity is going to roll this into an SRU that he’ll push through the ubuntu-security-proposed ppa |