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CVE-2009-5155

CVE-2009-5155

Published Date 2024-07-08
Product centos
Severity High (7.5)
Component glibc
Affected Versions CentOS 7
Patched Versions 2.17-326_ol001.el7_9.3

CVE Details

NVD Listing: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-5155

In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.28, parse_reg_exp in posix/regcomp.c misparses alternatives, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) or trigger an incorrect result by attempting a regular-expression match.