Out-of-bounds Read Affecting glibc package, versions *


low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.41% (74th percentile)
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NVD
9.8 critical
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SUSE
5.1 medium
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Red Hat
6.5 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-GLIBC-338164
  • published 26 Feb 2019
  • disclosed 26 Feb 2019

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:9 glibc.

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:9 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.