CVE-2016-9954

Published: Apr 21, 2017

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The backtrack compilation code in the Irregex package (aka IrRegular Expressions) before 0.9.6 for Scheme allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted regular expression with a repeating pattern.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

[oss-security] 20161215 Re: CVE Request: IrRegular Expressions resource exhaustion in regex compilation [was: Re: CVE Request: resource exhaustion in regex expression handling in WebKit]

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

https://github.com/ashinn/irregex/commit/a16ffc86eca15fca9e40607d41de3cea9cf868f1

x_refsource_CONFIRM

94942

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1413990

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CVE-2016-9954

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