CVE-2009-5155

Publication date

2019-02-26 02:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

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.