Out-of-bounds Read Affecting glibc-langpack-wa package, versions <0:2.28-151.el8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.73% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-GLIBCLANGPACKWA-4047263
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed20 Jan 2019

Introduced: 20 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-9169  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 glibc-langpack-wa to version 0:2.28-151.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2021:1585.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc-langpack-wa package and not the glibc-langpack-wa package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 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.

CVSS Scores

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