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[Bug libc/17079] nss_files mishandles small buffer (CVE-2015-5277)


https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17079

Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|nss_files mishandles small  |nss_files mishandles small
                   |buffer                      |buffer (CVE-2015-5277)
              Alias|                            |CVE-2015-5277
              Flags|security-                   |security+

--- Comment #4 from Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> ---
The description is misleading.  This bug can theoretically result in
applications receiving wrong data from NSS, and the data could even be
attacker-controlled, which means that this is a security bug.

Introduced in glibc 2.19, fixed in 2.20.  The broken fix which went into glibc
2.19 has been backported to earlier glibc versions by some distributions.

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