Bug 2358166 - CVE-2025-3409 stb: Nothings stb stack-based overflow [epel-9]
Summary: CVE-2025-3409 stb: Nothings stb stack-based overflow [epel-9]
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: stb
Version: epel9
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
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Assignee: Ben Beasley
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Blocks: CVE-2025-3409
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Reported: 2025-04-08 06:03 UTC by Michal Findra
Modified: 2025-04-08 11:02 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2025-04-08 11:02:11 UTC
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Description Michal Findra 2025-04-08 06:03:59 UTC
More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2358138

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 Ben Beasley 2025-04-08 11:02:11 UTC
The vulnerability report contains little detail. However, the function stb_include_string appears in the stb_include.h library. Significant concerns were noted with the design of this library during package review, so we have never shipped a copy of it:

- It uses strcat/strcpy into a fixed-length buffer that is assumed (but not proven) to be large enough for all possible uses
- It ignores I/O errors (possibly leading to undefined behavior from reading uninitialized memory), and so on.

Since we don’t ship stb_include, we can’t be affected.


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