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Andrew May commented on KAFKA-12698: ------------------------------------ That vulnerability is a glibc one, so I'm not sure why it's being reported as a vulnerability in a Java library. N.B. at about the same time that this issue was created, the CVE linked above was updated to say that kafka 2.6.0 was vulnerable (& the CVE links to emails generated off the back of updates to this Jira issue) This is now causing any dependency-checker tools that use the NIST NVD database to report Kafka 2.6.0 as vulnerable. Could it be that what has caused this report is that a container scanner 'clair' has scanned a container made up of ['version of linux with a vulnerable version of glibc' + 'some JVM' + 'kafka 2.6.0']? > CVE-2019-25013 high priority vulnerability reported in Kafka > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-12698 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-12698 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: priya Vijay > Priority: Major > > On running clair scanner for kafka version 2.6, the following high priority > vulnerability is reported for Kafka. > CVE-2019-25013 [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-25013] > details: The iconv feature in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through > 2.32, when processing invalid multi-byte input sequences in the EUC-KR > encoding, may have a buffer over-read -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)