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Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 18:01:19 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE id request for links2
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On 04/11/2012 06:10 PM, Nico Golde wrote:
> Hi, * Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com> [2012-04-10 21:56]:
>> On 04/09/2012 08:43 PM, Nico Golde wrote:
> [...]
>>> I discovered some out of memory accesses in links2 graphics
>>> mode that could be potentially used to run exploits. I fixed
>>> them in links-2.6. For Debian Squeeze, I am sending this patch
>>> that backports the fixes to links-2.3pre1. Apply the patch and
>>> distribute patched packages links and links2 through
>>> security.debian.org.
>>>
>>>
>>> [...] This patch fixes:
>>>
>>> Buffer overflow when pasting too long text from clipboard to
>>> dialog boxes (not remotely exploitable)
>>
>> Can this result in code execution?
>
> I am not sure about this one. For out of memory write in dip.c, my
> guess is yes, it is basically possible to write past an allocated
> buffer. Even though I can't tell you what data would reside in that
> area.
Is it exploitable for anything beyond a crash?
> For the xbm decoder, the problem has basically been that
> xbm_decode() did not indicate an error when decoding xbm images and
> thus the callers would continue to operate on the parsed structures
> even though the image is faulty.
Is it exploitable for anything beyond a crash?
> Cheers Nico
- --
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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