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| author | Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> | 2013-09-23 00:52:09 -0400 |
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| committer | Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> | 2013-09-23 00:52:09 -0400 |
| commit | c61b4d41c9647a54a329aa021341c0eb032b793e (patch) | |
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BZ #15754: CVE-2013-4788
The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a random value for static applications. Existing static applications need to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix. The test tst-ptrguard1-static and tst-ptrguard1 add regression coverage to ensure the pointer guards are sufficiently random and initialized to a default value.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b52b52eea7..62c58b2599 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -10,9 +10,15 @@ Version 2.19 * The following bugs are resolved with this release: 13985, 14155, 14699, 15427, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15640, 15736, 15748, - 15749, 15797, 15844, 15849, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886, - 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15905, 15909, 15919, 15921, - 15923, 15939, 15963, 15966. + 15749, 15754, 15797, 15844, 15849, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, + 15886, 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15905, 15909, 15919, + 15921, 15923, 15939, 15963, 15966. + +* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not + initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature + being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a + random value for static applications. Existing static applications need + to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754). * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL |