| Summary: | CVE-2015-5277 glibc: data corruption while reading the NSS files database | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Florian Weimer <fweimer> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | arjun.is, ashankar, codonell, fweimer, jakub, jrusnack, law, mfabian, mnewsome, pfrankli, pkis, sardella, siddhesh, slong, yozone |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: |
It was discovered that the nss_files backend for the Name Service Switch in glibc would return incorrect data to applications or corrupt the heap (depending on adjacent heap contents). A local attacker could potentially use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the system.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2015-11-20 05:58:06 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Bug Depends On: | 1099235, 1263134, 1263352, 1275920 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1262918 | ||
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Description
Florian Weimer
2015-09-14 15:36:19 UTC
External references: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17079 Upstream commit: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=ac60763eac3d43b7234dd21286ad3ec3f17957fc Acknowledgements: This issue was discovered by Sumit Bose and Lukáš Slebodník of Red Hat. This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2015:2172 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2172.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUS - Server and Compute Node Only Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUS - Server and Compute Node Only Via RHSA-2015:2589 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2589.html |