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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:12:18 +0200
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>, Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>,
"Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
Jeff Law <law@...hat.com>, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- glibc: strcoll() integer overflow
leading to buffer overflow + another alloca() stack overflow issue (upstream
#14547 && #14552)
On 09/07/2012 07:21 PM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
>> 2) Issue #2 (mentioned here only for completeness, but I am not of
>> the opinion this should receive a CVE identifier. See argumentation
>> below [but open to glibc upstream / others to disprove it]).
>
> I will hold off on issuing a CVE for this then. Anyone want to weigh in?
It looks as if the alloca issue was introduced at the same time as the
malloc-related overflow:
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=5358d026c74
So perhaps one CVE is enough for glibc bugs 14552 and 14547 because the
problems are similar and affect the same versions.
--
Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team
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