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GHSA-xq2p-cgwj-87m3

GitHub Security Advisory

⚠ Unreviewed MODERATE Has CVE

Advisory Details

Stack consumption vulnerability in the regcomp implementation in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.11.3, and 2.12.x through 2.12.2, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a regular expression containing adjacent repetition operators, as demonstrated by a {10,}{10,}{10,}{10,} sequence in the proftpd.gnu.c exploit for ProFTPD.

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Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-xq2p-cgwj-87m3
Published
May 14, 2022 2:42 AM
Last Modified
May 14, 2022 2:42 AM
CVSS Score
5.0 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Unknown
Primary Package
Unknown
GitHub Reviewed
✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: September 3, 2025 6:33 AM

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