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authorJeff Law <law@redhat.com>2014-12-15 10:09:32 +0100
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2014-12-15 10:09:33 +0100
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CVE-2012-3406: Stack overflow in vfprintf [BZ #16617]
A larger number of format specifiers coudld cause a stack overflow, potentially allowing to bypass _FORTIFY_SOURCE format string protection.
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@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ Version 2.21
* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6652, 10672, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498, 15215,
- 15884, 16469, 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17344, 17363,
- 17370, 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522,
- 17555, 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17581, 17582, 17583, 17584,
- 17585, 17589, 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17633, 17634, 17647,
- 17653, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682.
+ 15884, 16469, 16617, 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17344,
+ 17363, 17370, 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508,
+ 17522, 17555, 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17581, 17582, 17583,
+ 17584, 17585, 17589, 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17633, 17634,
+ 17647, 17653, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682.
* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ Version 2.21
implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
+* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
+ processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
+
* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.