CVE-2009-5155

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-02-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-19

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.

Affected products

GNU C Library (glibc): before 2.28 — fixed in 2.28
NetApp Cloud Backup: all versions
NetApp ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility: all versions
NetApp Steelstore Cloud Integrated Storage: all versions

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GNU C Library (glibc) 2.28. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=5513b40999149090987a0341c018d05d3eea1272
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=22793
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=32806
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=34238
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190315-0002/
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11053
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18986
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=eb04c21373e2a2885f3d52ff192b0499afe3c672
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K64119434
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K64119434?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS

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