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CVE-2019-9169
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CVE-2019-9169
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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.
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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
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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Looking at the actual fix, this is even less interesting than I originally thought. It’s a too-large memcmp, which even when the over read is possible, is not guaranteed unless the strings compared are almost identical so that the memcmp gets to the end. And assuming everything aligns, you’re likely to either have nothing happen (because the heap has allocated extra space in the memory page anyway), or at worse you’ll get a crash. See https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blobdiff;f=posix/regexec.c;h=084b1222d95b62eb2930166060174ef78cb74b02;hp=91d5a797b82e2679ceab74238416de06693e46ea;hb=583dd860d5b833037175247230a328f0050dbfe9;hpb=2bac7daa58da1a313bd452369b0508b31e146637
This bug was found with ASAN enabled, https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=34142 and given its longevity, was unlikely to have ever been hit naturally in the wild.