Description
Regexp2 is a feature-rich RegExp engine for Go. Prior to version 2.3.0, when regexp2 compiles and matches a pattern containing a large fixed-count quantifier applied to a zero-width subexpression — e.g. (?:){50000000} — the match engine executes the empty loop body m-1 times, pushing two integers onto the backtracking stack on every iteration. Because the parser accepts any repetition count up to math.MaxInt32 and the backtracking stack grows without bound, a pattern of fewer than 20 bytes matched against an empty input can force multi-gigabyte allocation and OOM-kill the process. MatchTimeout does not fully mitigate this because the memory is allocated faster than the 100 ms timeout clock can fire. This issue has been patched in version 2.3.0.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| dlclark | regexp2 | < 2.3.0 | — |
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | golang-github-dlclark-regexp2 | No fix yet | — |
| Debian 13 | golang-github-dlclark-regexp2 | No fix yet | — |
| Debian 12 | golang-github-dlclark-regexp2 | No fix yet | — |
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 26.10 | golang-github-dlclark-regexp2 | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | golang-github-dlclark-regexp2 | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | golang-github-dlclark-regexp2 | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | golang-github-dlclark-regexp2 | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | golang-github-dlclark-regexp2 | No fix yet | — |
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)Fewer releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS | golang-github-dlclark-regexp2 | No fix yet | — |
Azure Linux
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azure Linux 3 | gh +2 | No fix yet | — |