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CVE-2019-17514

Published: 12 October 2019

library/glob.html in the Python 2 and 3 documentation before 2016 has potentially misleading information about whether sorting occurs, as demonstrated by irreproducible cancer-research results. NOTE: the effects of this documentation cross application domains, and thus it is likely that security-relevant code elsewhere is affected. This issue is not a Python implementation bug, and there are no reports that NMR researchers were specifically relying on library/glob.html. In other words, because the older documentation stated "finds all the pathnames matching a specified pattern according to the rules used by the Unix shell," one might have incorrectly inferred that the sorting that occurs in a Unix shell also occurred for glob.glob. There is a workaround in newer versions of Willoughby nmr-data_compilation-p2.py and nmr-data_compilation-p3.py, which call sort() directly.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
this is a documentation change only, we will not be fixing this
issue in Ubuntu 20.10.

Priority

Negligible

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
python2.7
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (2.7.17-1~18.04ubuntu1.1)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
focal
Released (2.7.18-1~20.04.1)
groovy Ignored
(end of life)
jammy Needed

hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needed)
impish Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Ignored
(end of life)
lunar Does not exist

trusty
Released (2.7.6-8ubuntu0.6+esm6)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (2.7.12-1ubuntu0~16.04.12)
mantic Does not exist

python3.5
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

eoan Does not exist

focal Does not exist

xenial
Released (3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.11)
impish Does not exist

groovy Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

trusty Needs triage

upstream Needs triage

mantic Does not exist

python3.6
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (3.6.9-1~18.04ubuntu1.1)
disco Does not exist

eoan Does not exist

focal Does not exist

impish Does not exist

groovy Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

python3.4
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
impish Does not exist

groovy Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

eoan Does not exist

focal Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

trusty
Released (3.4.3-1ubuntu1~14.04.7+esm7)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

python3.7
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
impish Does not exist

bionic Needed

groovy Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Ignored
(end of life)
focal Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/6587/commits/5cffb1ed6a7f5afe74e4384d59f1670be29a7930
python3.8
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
impish Does not exist

bionic
Released (3.8.0-3~18.04)
focal
Released (3.8.2-1ubuntu1.2)
groovy Ignored

jammy Does not exist

eoan Ignored
(end of life)
hirsute Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact High
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N