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.
Published: 2019-10-12
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 2.2% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-7866 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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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T01:40:15.920Z

Reserved: 2019-10-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-17514

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Status : Modified

Published: 2019-10-12T13:15:10.790

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:32:25.357

Link: CVE-2019-17514

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Publid Date: 2019-10-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-17514 - Bugzilla

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