Bug 1279436

Summary: tmux: Out-of-bounds heap read
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: carnil, dcantrell, praiskup, rosset.filipe, strobert, sven
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OS: Linux   
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It was discovered that tmux did not properly handle certain input. An attacker could use this flaw to cause an out-of-bounds read by tricking a user into displaying specially crafted input within a tmux session.
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Last Closed: 2015-11-11 11:13:28 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1279437, 1279438, 1279439    
Bug Blocks: 1279440    

Description Adam Mariš 2015-11-09 13:05:03 UTC
An out-of-bounds heap read vulnerability was found in tmux.

Upstream bug (including reproducer):

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/92

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/commit/2ffbd5b5f05dded1564ba32a6a00b0b417439b2f

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-11-09 13:05:44 UTC
Created tmux tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1279437]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1279438]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1279439]

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2016-05-07 12:01:26 UTC
tmux-2.2-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.