FS#43747 - [glibc][CVE-2015-1472] heap buffer overflow in glibc swscanf

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Christian Rebischke (Shibumi) - Monday, 09 February 2015, 01:48 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 09 February 2015, 03:55 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Summary
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There is a heap buffer overflow in the actual glibc version 2.20-6 due to a 1 year old bug in glibc. Its unsure if the bug is exploitable or not but the next version 2.21 solves the issue.


References
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https://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=142301982723839&w=2 CVE-2015-1472
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-02/msg00119.html Changelog of glibc 2.21

greetings and thx for your great work with glibc

Chris
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Monday, 09 February 2015, 03:55 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  glibc-2.21-1
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 09 February 2015, 02:53 GMT
glibc-2.21 is in [testing] and will move in a couple of days.

The fix for CVE-2015-1472 also fixes CVE-2015-1473.
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 09 February 2015, 03:55 GMT
Bah - moving it now!

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