VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-9729

CVSS score7.5 HIGH

EPSS probability1.08%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2017-06-16

Last modified2026-06-17

CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion

Primary references

cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory