Bug 152962 - CAN-2005-1194 Buffer overflow in the ieee_putascii() function
Summary: CAN-2005-1194 Buffer overflow in the ieee_putascii() function
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: nasm
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
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Assignee: Richard Henderson
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-03-31 14:18 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-05-04 15:01:18 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2005:381 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Low: nasm security update 2005-05-04 04:00:00 UTC

Description Josh Bressers 2005-03-31 14:18:18 UTC 
There is a very obvious buffer overflow in ieee_putascii()

(code truncated)

static void ieee_putascii(char *format, ...)
    char buffer[256];
    vsprintf(buffer, format, ap);

At the very least it should be using a vsnprintf.
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-03-31 14:18:44 UTC 
This issue should also affect RHEL2.1 and RHEL3
Comment 2 Jindrich Novy 2005-04-15 13:02:49 UTC 
Affects RHEL2.1, RHEL3, RHEL4. The fix is now applied for all the RHELs.
Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2005-05-04 15:01:18 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-381.html
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