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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2019-9169: glibc: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2019-9169: glibc: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/26/2019
Created
06/16/2020
Added
06/15/2020
Modified
06/15/2020

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-libs-glibc

References

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