CVE-2019-9169

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.

Recent assessments:

busterb at June 15, 2020 6:59pm UTC reported:

A buffer overread in a very specific part of the glibc regex engine is something, but nothing really by itself. A read might potentially give an attacker a memory leak, but given the number of vendors who haven’t patched I don’t really believe the ‘network’ vector or the high criticality granted from the NVD CVSS. Red Hat’s assessment is more in line: <https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-9169&gt;

To fully address this vuln, literally every Linux installation on the planet would have to be patched, which just isn’t going to happen.

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