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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2019-7309: glibc: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 3, 2019
Added
Jun 15, 2020
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.29, the memcmp function for the x32 architecture can incorrectly return zero (indicating that the inputs are equal) because the RDX most significant bit is mishandled.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-libs-glibc
Title
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