Bug#441355: regcomp DoS'able in utf-8 locales

reassign 441355 grep thanks Rich Felker a écrit : Package: libc6 Version: 2.6.1-2 Severity: important glibc's regular expression engine crashes with sig11 whenever trying to compile a regular expression with non-ASCII range expressions if LC_CTYPE is a UTF-8 locale but LC_COLLATE is set

Bug#441355: regcomp DoS'able in utf-8 locales

reassign 441355 libc6 thanks Rich Felker a écrit : On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 09:33:43PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: The bug can cause crashes in any program using the system regex routines and could in principle be used for DoS attacks if a less-privileged user is able to provide regular

Bug#441355: regcomp DoS'able in utf-8 locales

Package: libc6 Version: 2.6.1-2 Severity: important glibc's regular expression engine crashes with sig11 whenever trying to compile a regular expression with non-ASCII range expressions if LC_CTYPE is a UTF-8 locale but LC_COLLATE is set to C or POSIX. This is a common setup among users who want