CVE-2016-9954

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9954
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9954.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-9954
Downstream
Published
2017-04-21T20:59:00Z
Modified
2026-10-20T10:47:32Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/ashinn/irregex

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ashinn/irregex
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last Affected
660a5fc00d579e077c72c417ef3ab63831003c08
Fixed
a16ffc86eca15fca9e40607d41de3cea9cf868f1
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:irregex_project:irregex:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "0.9.5"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "a16ffc86eca15fca9e40607d41de3cea9cf868f1"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.9.1
0.9.2
0.9.3
0.9.4
0.9.5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9954.json"