Candidate: CVE-2016-9954
PublicDate: 2017-04-21 20:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9954
 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/14/18
 https://github.com/ashinn/irregex/commit/a16ffc86eca15fca9e40607d41de3cea9cf868f1
Description:
 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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Mitigation:
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851278
Priority: low
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [7.5 HIGH]


Patches_chicken:
upstream_chicken: released (4.12.0-0.2)
precise/esm_chicken: DNE
trusty_chicken: ignored (out of standard support)
trusty/esm_chicken: DNE
xenial_chicken: ignored (end of standard support, was needs-triage)
bionic_chicken: not-affected (4.12.0-0.3)
focal_chicken: not-affected
groovy_chicken: not-affected
hirsute_chicken: not-affected
impish_chicken: not-affected
jammy_chicken: not-affected
devel_chicken: not-affected