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author | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2016-05-23 20:18:34 +0200 |
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committer | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2016-05-23 20:18:34 +0200 |
commit | bc779a1a5b3035133024b21e2f339fe4219fb11c (patch) | |
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CVE-2016-4429: sunrpc: Do not use alloca in clntudp_call [BZ #20112]
The call is technically in a loop, and under certain circumstances (which are quite difficult to reproduce in a test case), alloca can be invoked repeatedly during a single call to clntudp_call. As a result, the available stack space can be exhausted (even though individual alloca sizes are bounded implicitly by what can fit into a UDP packet, as a side effect of the earlier successful send operation).
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b3fd3cc2ec..2341697c97 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ Security related changes: called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name. Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234) +* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when + flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez' + alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429) + The following bugs are resolved with this release: [The release manager will add the list generated by |