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| author | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2018-11-27 16:12:43 +0100 |
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| committer | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2018-11-27 18:40:56 +0100 |
| commit | ce6ba630dbc96f49eb1f30366aa62261df4792f9 (patch) | |
| tree | 5151818a89dc1cd3d1c9d5082ab03f6716dd4036 /NEWS | |
| parent | f5cc21eaeea6afbdfd543c63d2a552f141a91781 (diff) | |
| download | glibc-ce6ba630dbc96f49eb1f30366aa62261df4792f9.tar.gz | |
CVE-2018-19591: if_nametoindex: Fix descriptor for overlong name [BZ #23927]
(cherry picked from commit d527c860f5a3f0ed687bd03f0cb464612dc23408)
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@@ -25,7 +25,13 @@ The following bugs are resolved with this release: [23717] Fix stack overflow in stdlib/tst-setcontext9 [23821] si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64 [23822] ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols + [23927] Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor (CVE-2018-19591) +Security related changes: + + CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a + denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo + calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken. Version 2.28 |