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Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 18:49:22 +0200
From: Tomas Hoger <thoger@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: coley@...re.org
Subject: Re: Old cscope buffer overflow
On Wed, 6 May 2009 11:49:14 -0400 (EDT) "Steven M. Christey"
<coley@...us.mitre.org> wrote:
> > If you're preparing cscope updates for CVE-2009-0148 and you may
> > still be shipping packages based on 15.5, you may want to have a
> > look at:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499174
> >
> > Steve, as the first public report for this is from 2006:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=189666
> >
> > I believe 2006 CVE id is needed here.
>
> We recently updated CVE-2009-0148 for overflows in cscope before
> 15.7a. Is this the same issue, or do we need a different one?
>
> This seems to be distinct from CVE-2006-4262 as well...
Different from both. CVE-2009-0148 is more of a dupe / re-occurrence /
incomplete fix of even older CVE-2004-2541. Some vendors originally
addressed that via sprintf -> snprintf across whole sources. Upstream
instead preferred to use "%.*s" with bit of length math to avoid
overflow and not harm portability. Though the math could int
underflow, still allowing buffer overflow.
BZ#189666 issue was fixed upstream in 15.6.
--
Tomas Hoger / Red Hat Security Response Team
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