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Debian: CVE-2017-9729: uclibc -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 15, 2025
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
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