CVE-2019-9169

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    CVE-2019-9169

    Published: 26 Feb 2019Last Modified: 28 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107160, https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=583dd860d5b833037175247230a328f0050dbfe9, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html, https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10278, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-04, https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K54823184, https://usn.ubuntu.com/4416-1/, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190315-0002/, https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24114, https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=34140, https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=34142

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    glibc-2.29

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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