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CVE-2017-9729

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-06-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-674

Description

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.

Affected products

• uClibC: 0.9.33.2

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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