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authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>2013-10-25 10:22:12 +0530
committerSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>2013-10-25 10:22:12 +0530
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Fix stack overflow due to large AF_INET6 requests
Resolves #16072 (CVE-2013-4458). This patch fixes another stack overflow in getaddrinfo when it is called with AF_INET6. The AF_UNSPEC case was fixed as CVE-2013-1914, but the AF_INET6 case went undetected back then.
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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Version 2.19
15734, 15735, 15736, 15748, 15749, 15754, 15760, 15764, 15797, 15825,
15844, 15847, 15849, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886, 15887,
15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15905, 15909, 15919, 15921, 15923,
- 15939, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15988, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16041.
+ 15939, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15988, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16041, 16072.
* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ Version 2.19
heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
#15856, #15857).
+* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
+ for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
+
* New locales: ak_GH, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, quz_PE, pap_AW, pap_CW,
ar_SS.