Bug 1276761 - CVE-2015-8777 glibc: apply additional pointer guard hardening
Summary: CVE-2015-8777 glibc: apply additional pointer guard hardening
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: glibc
Version: 22
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Florian Weimer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 1260583 1299755 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: CVE-2015-8777 1299754
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Reported: 2015-10-30 19:10 UTC by Florian Weimer
Modified: 2016-11-08 15:52 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

Fixed In Version: glibc-2.22-6.fc23 glibc-2.21-11.fc22
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-02-17 12:50:21 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Florian Weimer 2015-10-30 19:10:28 UTC
Apply the following upstream patches:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=a014cecd82b71b70a6a843e250e06b541ad524f7
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=f586e1328681b400078c995a0bb6ad301ef73549

These will provide additional hardening to make exploitation of memory safety violations more difficult.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2015-12-05 16:47:44 UTC
glibc-2.22-6.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-7174c4d68d

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2015-12-06 17:20:36 UTC
glibc-2.22-6.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
If you want to test the update, you can install it with
$ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update glibc'
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-7174c4d68d

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-12-06 19:18:16 UTC
glibc-2.22-6.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Florian Weimer 2016-01-19 08:53:04 UTC
*** Bug 1299755 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Florian Weimer 2016-02-08 11:53:20 UTC
*** Bug 1260583 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2016-02-08 15:54:25 UTC
glibc-2.21-10.fc22 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 22. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-0480defc94

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2016-02-10 11:55:14 UTC
glibc-2.21-10.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-0480defc94

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2016-02-16 16:10:40 UTC
glibc-2.21-11.fc22 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 22. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-0480defc94

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2016-02-17 06:28:11 UTC
glibc-2.21-11.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-0480defc94

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2016-02-17 12:49:26 UTC
glibc-2.21-11.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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