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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 22:34:14 -0500
From: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: CVE request: heap buffer overflow in glibc
swscanf
> Here, it seems that the goal of the policy is risk management for use
> of alloca. This is security relevant for some applications that use
> glibc, because it could (for example) allow a denial of service attack
> that's intended to trigger a failed alloca. There was one intended
> policy, and the the incorrect "__libc_use_alloca (newsize)" caused a
> different (and weaker) policy to be enforced instead.
>
> Use CVE-2015-1473 for this risk-management error.
alloca isn't checked if -fstack-check isn't used, and most distributions
don't use it. There's a good chance that a guard page will be hit but no
guarantee without -fstack-check.
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