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CVE-2019-9169

Published: 26 February 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.

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
eglibc
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

eoan Does not exist

focal Does not exist

trusty Not vulnerable

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

Patches:
upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=583dd860d5b833037175247230a328f0050dbfe9;hp=2bac7daa58da1a313bd452369b0508b31e146637



glibc
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (2.27-3ubuntu1.2)
cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Not vulnerable
(2.30-0ubuntu2)
focal Not vulnerable
(2.30-0ubuntu2)
trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (2.30)
xenial
Released (2.23-0ubuntu11.2)
Patches:

upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=583dd860d5b833037175247230a328f0050dbfe9 (master)
upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=4d0b1b0f61bfba034e9e76a1d76acc59c975238f (2.29)
upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=2aee101ff6075dd97a99982a1ba29e21ec25c52f (2.28)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H