Out-of-bounds Read Affecting glibc package, versions <2.28-9
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-GLIBC-519157
- published 26 Feb 2019
- disclosed 26 Feb 2019
Introduced: 26 Feb 2019
CVE-2019-9169 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11 glibc to version 2.28-9 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc package and not the glibc package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.29, proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c has a heap-based buffer over-read via an attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-9169
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10278
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K54823184
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-04
- https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=34140
- https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=34142
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24114
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=583dd860d5b833037175247230a328f0050dbfe9
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190315-0002/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107160
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4416-1/
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-9169
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=583dd860d5b833037175247230a328f0050dbfe9
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