#VU17859 Out-of-bounds read in Glibc - CVE-2019-9169

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#VU17859 Out-of-bounds read in Glibc - CVE-2019-9169

Published: February 26, 2019 / Updated: April 7, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU17859
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9169
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Glibc
Software vendor:
GNU

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack or gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to heap-based buffer over-read via an attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack or gain access to sensitive information.


Remediation

The vulnerability is fixed in GIT repository.

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