DEBIAN-CVE-2019-9169

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-9169 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.800000190734863 CRITICAL

Record from OSV · Published February 26, 2019

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.

Fixed versions

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Package	Ecosystem	Fixed in
glibc	Debian:14	2.28-9
glibc	Debian:13	2.28-9
glibc	Debian:12	2.28-9

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

9.800000190734863

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:14	glibc	0
Debian:13	glibc	0
Debian:12	glibc	0

Timeline

Feb 26, 2019 CVE Published
Oct 15, 2026 CVE Updated

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References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-9169 advisory

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