Launchpad has imported 7 comments from the remote bug at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=855385.
If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2012-09-07T14:59:00+00:00 Jan wrote: An integer overflow, leading to buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the implementation of strcoll() routine, used to compare two strings based on the current locale, of glibc, the GNU libc libraries, performed calculation of memory requirements / allocation, needed for storage of the strings. If an application linked against glibc was missing an application-level sanity checks for validity of strcoll() arguments and accepted untrusted input, an attacker could use this flaw to cause the particular application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. Upstream bug report (including reproducer): [1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14547 Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/1048203/comments/3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2012-09-07T15:31:44+00:00 Jan wrote: CVE request: [2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/07/9 Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/1048203/comments/4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2012-09-07T15:32:49+00:00 Jan wrote: This issue affects the versions of the glibc package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. -- This issue affects the versions of the glibc package, as shipped with Fedora release of 16 and 17. Please schedule an update (once there is final upstream patch available). Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/1048203/comments/5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2012-09-07T15:34:15+00:00 Jan wrote: Created glibc tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 855399] Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/1048203/comments/6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2012-09-07T17:29:07+00:00 Jan wrote: The CVE identifier of CVE-2012-4412 has been assigned to this issue: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/07/12 Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/1048203/comments/7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2013-08-22T00:49:36+00:00 Fedora wrote: glibc-2.17-13.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/1048203/comments/14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2013-09-05T09:05:48+00:00 Huzaifa wrote: Statement: This issue affects the version of glibc as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having moderate security impact, a future update may address this flaw. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/1048203/comments/15 ** Changed in: fedora Status: Unknown => Confirmed ** Changed in: fedora Importance: Unknown => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to eglibc in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1048203 Title: (CVE-2012-4412) glibc: strcoll() integer overflow leading to buffer overflow Status in GLibC: Fix Released Status in eglibc package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in eglibc package in Debian: Fix Released Status in Fedora: Confirmed Status in Gentoo Linux: Fix Released Bug description: An integer overflow, leading to buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the implementation of strcoll() routine, used to compare two strings based on the current locale, of glibc, the GNU libc libraries, performed calculation of memory requirements / allocation, needed for storage of the strings. If an application linked against glibc was missing an application-level sanity checks for validity of strcoll() arguments and accepted untrusted input, an attacker could use this flaw to cause the particular application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. Upstream bug report (including reproducer): [1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14547 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/glibc/+bug/1048203/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
