Bug 1145862 (CVE-2014-6273)

Summary:	CVE-2014-6273 apt: possible stack-based buffer overflow when handling HTTP URLs
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	Axel.Thimm
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Description Murray McAllister 2014-09-24 03:17:43 UTC

A possible stack-based buffer overflow flaw when handling HTTP URLs was found in apt. A man-in-the-middle attacker could possibly use this flaw to cause apt to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code.

Possible fix:

https://gist.github.com/AGWA/4069e45856ed261ac0af

References:

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2353-1/

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-09-24 03:18:08 UTC

Created apt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1145863]

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:35:00 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.