{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "security@debian.org", "ID": "CVE-2016-9954", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "The backtrack compilation code in the Irregex package (aka IrRegular Expressions) before 0.9.6 for Scheme allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted regular expression with a repeating pattern." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "[oss-security] 20161215 Re: CVE Request: IrRegular Expressions resource exhaustion in regex compilation [was: Re: CVE Request: resource exhaustion in regex expression handling in WebKit]", "refsource": "MLIST", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/15/8" }, { "name": "https://github.com/ashinn/irregex/commit/a16ffc86eca15fca9e40607d41de3cea9cf868f1", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://github.com/ashinn/irregex/commit/a16ffc86eca15fca9e40607d41de3cea9cf868f1" }, { "name": "94942", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94942" }, { "name": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1413990", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1413990" } ] } }