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High severity7.5OSV Advisory· Published Feb 26, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-20796

CVE-2018-20796

Description

In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.29, check_dst_limits_calc_pos_1 in posix/regexec.c has Uncontrolled Recursion, as demonstrated by '(\227|)(\\1\\1|t1|\\\2537)+' in grep.

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