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[Bug libc/17079] nss_files heap-based buffer overflow with 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 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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