CVE-2019-9192

highCVSS 7.5covered by 1 sourcefirst seen 2026-08-06

CSIRTS triage

What: Uncontrolled recursion in check_dst_limits_calc_pos_1 within POSIX regex execution allows stack exhaustion.
Who is affected: Systems running glibc through version 2.29 processing untrusted regular expressions.
Urgency: High priority; stack exhaustion can crash applications and potentially be chained for code execution.
Action: Upgrade glibc to version 2.30 or later with recursion depth limiting.

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Moderate exploitation risk2.4% 30-day exploitation probability. Patch within normal cadence, watch for KEV listing. Riskier than 83% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.

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