CVE-2019-7309

Summary

CVECVE-2019-7309
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-02-03 02:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-24 17:37:00 UTC
DescriptionIn the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.29, the memcmp function for the x32 architecture can incorrectly return zero (indicating that the inputs are equal) because the RDX most significant bit is mishandled.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Glibc All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
24155 – (CVE-2019-7309) x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309) MISC sourceware.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
GNU glibc CVE-2019-7309 Local Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
H.J. Lu - Re: [PATCH] x86-64 memcmp: Use unsigned Jcc instructions on size MISC sourceware.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
glibc: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202006-04) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 900243 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for glibc 2.28
  • 903380 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for glibc (1940)
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