[PATCH] posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen needs to copy the path argument (BZ 17048)

Allan McRae allan@archlinux.org
Sun Jun 15 01:09:00 GMT 2014


On 12/06/14 07:18, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 06/11/2014 11:01 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> This looks fine to me except for some trivia.
> 
> Thanks, committed with the suggested changes.
> 

We normally add a news item for fixed CVEs.  How does this sound?

* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
  copy the path argument. This allowed programs to trigger use-after-free
  bugs or other situations where the path is mutated. (Bugzilla #17048).


Allan



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