Description of problem: As far as I can tell, the Fedora byacc package is vulnerable to this ancient yacc buffer overflow: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20080708155228 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): all versions up to and including 1.9.20070509 (the current version in Fedora, also the latest upstream) How reproducible: By code inspection. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Just check the code of skeleton.c, the vulnerable line is there. Actual results: Vulnerable Expected results: Not vulnerable Additional info: The OpenBSD commit which fixes this: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/yacc/skeleton.c.diff?r1=1.28&r2=1.29 As this is in the generated skeleton, any packages built with byacc might be vulnerable.
byacc-1.9.20070509-4.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9
byacc-1.9.20070509-4.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 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 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update byacc'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-6414
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle. Changing version to '10'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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F10 already has the fixed byacc-1.9.20070509-4.fc10, F9 is no longer supported, closing.