Bug 1197798 – CVE-2015-8985 glibc: potential denial of service in pop_fail_stack()

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Bug 1197798 - (CVE-2015-8985) CVE-2015-8985 glibc: potential denial of service in pop_fail_stack()

Summary:	CVE-2015-8985 glibc: potential denial of service in pop_fail_stack()

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2015-8985

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1197799
Blocks:	1187112 1197800
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Reported:	2015-03-02 11:01 EST by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified:	2018-10-31 08:14 EDT (History)
CC List:	9 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2015-11-24 03:28:06 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Sourceware	18032	None	None	None	2016-02-04 01:43 EST

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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-03-02 11:01:18 EST

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 11:01:40 EST

Created glibc tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1197799]

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-09-08 03:24:38 EDT

CVE request via:

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

Comment 3 Carlos O'Donell 2015-11-04 15:50:53 EST

This is still present in glibc upstream as of 2015-11-04.

Comment 4 Andrej Nemec 2017-02-15 04:09:33 EST

CVE assignment:

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

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