Bug 2539649 (CVE-2026-77423) - CVE-2026-77423 org.jline/jline: JLine: Denial of Service via user-controlled regular expressions
Summary: CVE-2026-77423 org.jline/jline: JLine: Denial of Service via user-controlled ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-77423
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2539773
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-09-23 18:43 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-23 20:46 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-23 18:43:28 UTC
JLine is a Java library for handling console input. From 3.0.0 until 3.30.15 and 4.3.1, the JLine built-in less viewer passes user-controlled search and display-filter patterns from getPattern(boolean doDisplayPattern) in builtins/src/main/java/org/jline/builtins/Less.java directly to Java's backtracking regular expression engine and repeatedly applies them to file content. A nested-quantifier expression evaluated against non-matching lines can consume excessive CPU and indefinitely block the session thread, and repeated sessions in Telnet or SSH deployments can exhaust a bounded worker pool. This issue is fixed in versions 3.30.15 and 4.3.1.


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