Bug 2167611

Summary:	CVE-2023-0687 glibc: gmon memory corruption due wrong calculation of required buffer size [fedora-36]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Sandipan Roy <saroy>
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Carlos O'Donell <codonell>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	36	CC:	aoliva, arjun, codonell, dj, fweimer, jlaw, mcermak, mcoufal, mfabian, pfrankli, sipoyare, skolosov
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Bug Blocks:	2167610

Description Sandipan Roy 2023-02-07 05:39:57 UTC

More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2167610

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Sandipan Roy 2023-02-07 05:40:01 UTC

Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an
update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as
this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated
when new packages are pushed to stable.

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# bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required)
type=security

# low, medium, high, urgent (required)
severity=medium

# testing, stable
request=testing

# Bug numbers: 1234,9876
bugs=2167610,2167611

# Description of your update
notes=Security fix for [PUT CVEs HERE]

# Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds
autokarma=True
stable_karma=3
unstable_karma=-3

# Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable
close_bugs=True

# Suggest that users restart after update
suggest_reboot=False

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Additionally, you may opt to use the bodhi web interface to submit updates:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/new

Comment 2 Carlos O'Donell 2023-02-14 14:48:18 UTC

Upstream does not consider this a security issue.

We have submitted a DISPUTE for the CVE assignment:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29444#c19

Debian has likewise marked this as not a security bug:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-0687