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CVE-2019-9169

Date: February 25, 2019

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

9.8

Related Resources (17)

Url: https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10278

Url: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24114

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/4416-1/

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9169

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-9169

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-9169

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107160

Url: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=34140

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9169

Url: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=34142

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-04

Url: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K54823184

Url: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=583dd860d5b833037175247230a328f0050dbfe9

Url: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=583dd860d5b833037175247230a328f0050dbfe9

Url: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

Url: https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190315-0002/

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2019-9169

Severity Score

9.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Read

CWE-125

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	9.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.5
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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