#VU30789 Resource exhaustion in Oniguruma - CVE-2019-16163

CSH
CYBERSECURITY HELP
Sign In REGISTER
 
Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU30789

#VU30789 Resource exhaustion in Oniguruma - CVE-2019-16163

Published: September 9, 2019 / Updated: July 17, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU30789
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16163
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Oniguruma
Software vendor:
K.Kosako

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Oniguruma before 6.9.3 allows Stack Exhaustion in regcomp.c because of recursion in regparse.c.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

External links