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Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 21:31:28 -0700
From: Lucian Cojocar <lucian@...ocar.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: uclibc-ng (and uclibc): ARM arch:
 code execution

On 06/29/2016 12:13 AM, Lucian Cojocar wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> u-clibc and uclibc-ng is used in several projects[4, 5].
> 
> As described here[3], an attacker that controls the length parameter of
> the `memset' can also control the value of the PC register. The issue is
> similar to CVE-2011-2702. A patch has been proposed for uclibc-ng[1]. A
> denial of service proof of concept is available[2].
> 

This was fixed in version 1.0.16 of uclibc-ng[1]

[1] http://mailman.uclibc-ng.org/pipermail/devel/2016-July/001067.html

Lucian

> 
> [1]http://repo.or.cz/uclibc-ng.git/commit/e3848e3dd64a8d6437531488fe341354bc02eaed
> [2]http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.uclibc-ng/27
> [3]http://mailman.uclibc-ng.org/pipermail/devel/2016-May/000890.html
> [4]https://www.uclibc.org/products.html
> [5]http://www.uclibc-ng.org/ 

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