Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 29, 2026
CVE-2026-102473
CVE-2026-102473
Description
A flaw was found in dash. When built without libc fnmatch, the internal pmatch() matcher implements * by unbounded recursion over candidate positions. A local user who can plant filenames, or otherwise feed that matcher, can make a short multi-star pattern such as *.*.*.*.*.tar.gz consume excessive CPU.
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