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[Bug regex/12896] New: regexec() stack overflow denial of service


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12896

           Summary: regexec() stack overflow denial of service
           Product: glibc
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: regex
        AssignedTo: drepper.fsp@gmail.com
        ReportedBy: yangdingning@gmail.com


An easy way to reproduce is:

$ echo | grep -E "(.*)\1{4}+"
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$

This bug has been verified to exist in glibc 2.11.1 shipped with Ubuntu 10.04,
as well as the latest version from git repository. It may have security
implications as shown in the description of CVE-2010-4051 and CVE-2010-4052.

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