Bug 1413990 (CVE-2016-9954) - CVE-2016-9954 chicken: Excessive resource consumption due to irregex regular expression parsing
Summary: CVE-2016-9954 chicken: Excessive resource consumption due to irregex regular ...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2016-9954
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1413993 1413994
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-01-17 13:58 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:04 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-05-12 01:30:01 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-01-17 13:58:26 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in irregex which is bundled as a part of chicken. Parsing a maliciously crafted regular expression could cause resource exhaustion resulting in a Denial of Service.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/681

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/ashinn/irregex/commit/a16ffc86eca15fca9e40607d41de3cea9cf868f1
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-01-17 14:05:17 UTC 
Created chicken tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1413993]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1413994]
Comment 2 Rick Elrod 2017-05-12 01:30:01 UTC 
This has been fixed for a while.
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