CVE - CVE-2019-17514

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CVE-2019-17514	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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.
References
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CONFIRM:https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191107-0005/ MISC:https://bugs.python.org/issue33275 MISC:https://github.com/bminor/bash/blob/ac50fbac377e32b98d2de396f016ea81e8ee9961/pathexp.c#L380 MISC:https://github.com/bminor/bash/blob/ac50fbac377e32b98d2de396f016ea81e8ee9961/pathexp.c#L405 MISC:https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03216 MISC:https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03216/suppl_file/ol9b03216_si_002.zip MISC:https://twitter.com/LucasCMoore/status/1181615421922824192 MISC:https://twitter.com/chris_bloke/status/1181997278136958976 MISC:https://web.archive.org/web/20150822013622/https://docs.python.org/3/library/glob.html MISC:https://web.archive.org/web/20150906020027/https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/glob.html MISC:https://web.archive.org/web/20160309211341/https://docs.python.org/3/library/glob.html MISC:https://web.archive.org/web/20160526201356/https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/glob.html MISC:https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjwda/a-code-glitch-may-have-caused-errors-in-more-than-100-published-studies UBUNTU:USN-4428-1 URL:https://usn.ubuntu.com/4428-1/
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MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20191012	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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