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CVE-2016-9954

Published: Apr 21, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9954
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/399.html

The backtrack compilation code in the Irregex package (aka IrRegular Expressions) before 0.9.6 for Scheme allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted regular expression with a repeating pattern.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Irregex Irregex_project * 0.9.5 (including)
Chicken Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Chicken Ubuntu trusty *
Chicken Ubuntu upstream *
Chicken Ubuntu xenial *

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