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authorAurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>2019-03-16 22:59:56 +0100
committerAurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>2019-03-16 23:34:23 +0100
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Record CVE-2019-9169 in NEWS and ChangeLog [BZ #24114]
(cherry picked from commit b626c5aa5d0673a9caa48fb79fba8bda237e6fa8)
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2019-01-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+ CVE-2019-9169
regex: fix read overrun [BZ #24114]
Problem found by AddressSanitizer, reported by Hongxu Chen in:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/34140
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@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ Security related changes:
CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
or command injection issues in applications.
+
+ CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
+ via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
+ over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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