Bug 1044858 (CVE-2017-9729)

Summary:	VUL-1: CVE-2017-9729: uClibc: Stack exhaustion (uncontrolled recursion) in thecheck_dst_limits_calc_pos_1
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	Johannes Segitz <jsegitz>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P4 - Low	CC:	smash_bz
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	openSUSE 42.2
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/187012/
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Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Johannes Segitz 2017-06-19 06:57:27 UTC

CVE-2017-9729

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.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2017-9729
http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-9729/

Comment 1 Ismail Dönmez 2017-08-02 10:56:56 UTC

I am not the maintainer and this package should be dropped from 42.2, already removed from TW.

Comment 2 Bernhard Wiedemann 2017-08-02 14:01:47 UTC

This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (1044858) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/514039 42.3 / lifecycle-data

Comment 3 Bernhard Wiedemann 2017-08-03 08:00:22 UTC

This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (1044858) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/514155 42.3 / lifecycle-data

Comment 4 Andreas Stieger 2017-08-03 08:45:50 UTC

No maintainer, deprecated upstream.
Marked as deprecated in 42.3 lifecycle data.

Comment 5 Bernhard Wiedemann 2017-08-03 10:01:06 UTC

This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (1044858) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/514160 42.3 / lifecycle-data