PT-2017-10392 · Irregex · Irregex

Andrej Nemec · Published 2017-04-21 · Updated 2017-04-27 · CVE-2016-9954

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Irregex versions prior to 0.9.6

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically memory consumption, by utilizing a crafted regular expression that contains a repeating pattern.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.9.6, update to version 0.9.6 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-9954

Affected Products

Irregex

References · 12

• https://github.com/ashinn/irregex/commit/a16ffc86eca15fca9e40607d41de3cea9cf868f1 · Patch
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9954 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9954 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9954 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9954 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9954 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9954 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9954 · Security Note
• https://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/14/18 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/94942 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1413990 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/15/8 · Note