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[Bug libc/17079] nss_files heap-based buffer overflow with small buffer (CVE-2015-5277)
- From: "fweimer at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 11:42:23 +0000
- Subject: [Bug libc/17079] nss_files heap-based buffer overflow with small buffer (CVE-2015-5277)
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- References: <bug-17079-131 at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/>
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 heap-based buffer
|buffer (CVE-2015-5277) |overflow with small buffer
| |(CVE-2015-5277)
--- Comment #5 from Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #4)
> 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.
This is not quite correct, either. This is actually a heap-based buffer
overflow.
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