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| author | Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> | 2014-12-15 10:09:32 +0100 |
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| committer | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2014-12-15 10:09:33 +0100 |
| commit | a5357b7ce2a2982c5778435704bcdb55ce3667a0 (patch) | |
| tree | 1292d6cb3f935bf84f07a1acc2fc92409dce1084 /NEWS | |
| parent | 3a12c70f137707074209241e6c6172ea25f9ab4a (diff) | |
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CVE-2012-3406: Stack overflow in vfprintf [BZ #16617]
A larger number of format specifiers coudld cause a stack overflow, potentially allowing to bypass _FORTIFY_SOURCE format string protection.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8b788c8195..a324c10ba6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ Version 2.21 * The following bugs are resolved with this release: 6652, 10672, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498, 15215, - 15884, 16469, 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17344, 17363, - 17370, 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, - 17555, 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17581, 17582, 17583, 17584, - 17585, 17589, 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17633, 17634, 17647, - 17653, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682. + 15884, 16469, 16617, 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17344, + 17363, 17370, 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, + 17522, 17555, 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17581, 17582, 17583, + 17584, 17585, 17589, 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17633, 17634, + 17647, 17653, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682. * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for @@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ Version 2.21 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected. +* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when + processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers. + * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library. |