Bug 1262914 (CVE-2015-5277)

Summary: CVE-2015-5277 glibc: data corruption while reading the NSS files database
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: arjun.is, ashankar, codonell, fweimer, jakub, jrusnack, law, mfabian, mnewsome, pfrankli, pkis, sardella, siddhesh, slong, yozone
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OS: Linux   
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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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Last Closed: 2015-11-20 05:58:06 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1099235, 1263134, 1263352, 1275920    
Bug Blocks: 1262918    

Description Florian Weimer 2015-09-14 15:36:19 UTC
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), potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution.

Comment 1 Florian Weimer 2015-09-14 15:37:37 UTC
External references:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17079

Comment 10 Ján Rusnačko 2015-11-13 08:38:59 UTC
Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Sumit Bose and Lukáš Slebodník of Red Hat.

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 15:55:50 UTC
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

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2015-12-09 08:58:49 UTC
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