CVE-2019-20838

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-20838
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-06-15 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2024-03-27 16:05:00 UTC
Descriptionlibpcre in PCRE before 8.43 allows a subject buffer over-read in JIT when UTF is disabled, and \X or \R has more than one fixed quantifier, a related issue to CVE-2019-20454.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Apple Macos All All All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os All All All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os All All All All
Application Pcre Pcre All All All All
Application Pcre Pcre All All All All
Application Splunk Universal Forwarder All All All All
Application Splunk Universal Forwarder 9.1.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-2021-02-01-1 macOS Big Sur 11.2, Security Update 2021-001 Catalina, Security Update 2021-001 Mojave FULLDISC seclists.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-2020-12-14-4 Additional information for APPLE-SA-2020-11-13-1 macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 FULLDISC seclists.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
About the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 - Apple Support CONFIRM support.apple.com Vendor Advisory
About the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.2, Security Update 2021-001 Catalina, Security Update 2021-001 Mojave - Apple Support CONFIRM support.apple.com Vendor Advisory
www.pcre.org/original/changelog.txt MISC www.pcre.org Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
717920 – (CVE-2019-20838, CVE-2020-14155) <dev-libs/libpcre-8.44: Multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-20838, CVE-2020-14155) MISC bugs.gentoo.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
[mina-dev] 20210225 [jira] [Created] (FTPSERVER-500) Security vulnerability in common/lib/log4j-1.2.17.jar lists.apache.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159497 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for pcre (ELSA-2021-4373)
  • 198789 Ubuntu Security Notification for PCRE Vulnerabilities (USN-5425-1)
  • 239835 Red Hat Update for pcre (RHSA-2021:4373)
  • 239865 Red Hat Update for red hat jboss core services apache Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server 2.4.37 sp10 (RHSA-2021:4614)
  • 378883 Splunk Enterprise August Third Party Package Updates (SVD-2023-0808)
  • 751288 OpenSUSE Security Update for pcre (openSUSE-SU-2021:3529-1)
  • 751317 OpenSUSE Security Update for pcre (openSUSE-SU-2021:1441-1)
  • 751361 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for pcre (SUSE-SU-2021:3652-1)
  • 900129 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for pcre 8.42
  • 903163 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for pcre (1821)
  • 940117 AlmaLinux Security Update for pcre (ALSA-2021:4373)
  • 960410 Rocky Linux Security Update for pcre (RLSA-2021:4373)
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