cve/2009/CVE-2009-5155.md

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.

POC

Reference

No PoCs from references.

Github

• https://github.com/flyrev/security-scan-ci-presentation
• https://github.com/iakovmarkov/prometheus-vuls-exporter
• https://github.com/nedenwalker/spring-boot-app-using-gradle
• https://github.com/nedenwalker/spring-boot-app-with-log4j-vuln
• https://github.com/thegeeklab/audit-exporter