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CVE-2009-5155
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.
Impact	CVSS v3 : 7.5 HIGH CVSS v2 : 5 MEDIUM
Type	CWE-19
Attack Vector	CVSSv2 Vector : AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Quick links	CVE, NVD, CERT, Metasploit, Exploit-db, Fulldisc, Bugtraq, Microsoft, Red Hat, Debian, GitHub code/issues, Google
References	https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=eb04c21373e2a2885f3d52ff192b0499afe3c672 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18986 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11053 https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=34238 https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=32806 https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=22793 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=5513b40999149090987a0341c018d05d3eea1272 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190315-0002/ https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K64119434 https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K64119434?utm_source=f5support&utm_medium=RSS https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E