CVE-2019-17514

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.
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.7.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.8.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Information

Published : 2019-10-12 13:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 13:13


NVD link : CVE-2019-17514

Mitre link : CVE-2019-17514

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2019-17514


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Products Affected

python

  • python
CWE
CWE-682

Incorrect Calculation

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