CVE-2019-7309

Published: 03 February 2019

In 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.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 5.5

Status

Package	Release	Status
eglibc Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Needs triage

	Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)	Does not exist
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Ignored
glibc Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.30)

	Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)	Not vulnerable (2.31-0ubuntu9)
	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)	Not vulnerable (2.31-0ubuntu9)
	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)	Ignored
	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)	Ignored
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Does not exist
	Patches: Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=3f635fb43389b54f682fc9ed2acc0b2aaf4a923d (master) Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=726a78867b3144e9b9da10197bcf59bde3d8b2a4 (2.29) Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=9aaa083387fd1e19eb0bbd9f25444a5d5c91e210 (2.28) Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=2ebadb6451eda1d518d70e26cf4ceeb0362e2456 (2.27) Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=04e767b59b16befce93c6086362acbc1fae63f4e (2.26) Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=2ad78b78d382c5e4bd805334617ac17f35ecff7e (2.25) Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=9146dc9d73aba08cf3fc2613a3f946c219dd2a52 (2.24)

Notes

Author	Note
mdeslaur	only affects x32 we will not be fixing this issue in Ubuntu stable releases, marking as ignored

References

Bugs

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24155

CVE-2019-7309

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