Bug 1196745 (CVE-2011-5320)

Summary: CVE-2011-5320 glibc: scanf implementation crashes on certain inputs
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: arjun, ashankar, codonell, fweimer, jakub, law, mbliss, mnewsome, pfrankli, security-response-team
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Fixed In Version: glibc 2.15 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-02-26 16:13:27 UTC 
It was reported [1] that scanf and related functions are crashing due to a bug [2] in glibc.

[1]: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/686
[2]: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13138
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-07-17 05:55:58 UTC 
Statement:

This issue affects the version of glibc package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. A future update in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 may address this issue. This issue did not affect the versions of glibc as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Extended Life Cycle phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates.