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Bug 1234887 - (CVE-2015-4646) CVE-2015-4646 squashfs-tools: stack overflow in read_fragment_table_4 due to fix for CVE-2015-4645
CVE-2015-4646 squashfs-tools: stack overflow in read_fragment_table_4 due to ...
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20150617,repor...
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Depends On: 1234888
Blocks: 1234889
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Reported: 2015-06-23 08:57 EDT by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified: 2016-01-22 07:31 EST (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-10-09 17:01:45 EDT
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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-06-23 08:57:53 EDT
After applying CVE-2015-4645 fix, squashfs-tools become vulnerable to stack overflow issue - the stack VLA allocation of fragment_table_index[] can easily exceed RLIMIT_STACK.

Upstream bug report: https://github.com/devttys0/sasquatch/pull/5
Upstream fix: https://github.com/gcanalesb/sasquatch/commit/6777e08cc38bc780d27c69c1d8c272867b74524f
Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-06-23 08:58:33 EDT
Created squashfs-tools tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1234888]

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