CVE-2017-9729

7.5 highEPSS 1.1%

High (7.5) in uclibc uclibc. EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In uClibc 0.9.33.2, there is stack exhaustion (uncontrolled recursion) in the check_dst_limits_calc_pos_1 function in misc/regex/regexec.c when processing a crafted regular expression.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 65% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-674
Published: 2017-06-16
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

uclibc:uclibc

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/16/4
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/16/4

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