CVE-2016-9954

high

Published 2017-04-21 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`4.12.0-0.2`
sid	Fixed	`4.12.0-0.2`
forky	Fixed	`4.12.0-0.2`
bullseye	Fixed	`4.12.0-0.2`
bookworm	Fixed	`4.12.0-0.2`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
irregex_project	irregex	`{"endIncluding":"0.9.5"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.