Bug 1197798 (CVE-2015-8985)

Summary: CVE-2015-8985 glibc: potential denial of service in pop_fail_stack()
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: arjun.is, ashankar, codonell, fweimer, jakub, law, mnewsome, pfrankli, sardella
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Bug Depends On: 1197799    
Bug Blocks: 1187112, 1197800    

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-03-02 16:01:18 UTC
A crash was reported [1] during glibc extended regular expression processing.
No known patch exists at the time of writing.

[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=779392

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-03-02 16:01:40 UTC
Created glibc tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1197799]

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-09-08 07:24:38 UTC
CVE request via:

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/08/2

Comment 3 Carlos O'Donell 2015-11-04 20:50:53 UTC
This is still present in glibc upstream as of 2015-11-04.

Comment 4 Andrej Nemec 2017-02-15 09:09:33 UTC
CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/437