Bug 1247937 (CVE-2015-5957) - CVE-2015-5957 remind: unspecified buffer overflow flaw
Summary: CVE-2015-5957 remind: unspecified buffer overflow flaw
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2015-5957
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1215295 1247938
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-07-29 09:42 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:35 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: remind 3.1.15
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:42:54 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2015-07-29 09:42:08 UTC 
An unspecified buffer overflow flaw was found in Remind, a calendar and alarm program:

http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/remind-fans/2015/003172.html

This issue was fixed upstream in the 3.1.15 version of remind.

CVE request:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/232
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-07-29 09:44:02 UTC 
Created remind tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1247938]
Comment 2 Jaromír Cápík 2015-07-29 17:46:49 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1215295 ***
Comment 3 Martin Prpič 2015-07-30 08:24:39 UTC 
(In reply to Jaromír Cápík from comment #2)
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> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1215295 ***

Jaromir, please don't close this bug. It is used to track the vulnerability, not the change in the package itself. It was correct to close the other tracking bug though, 1247938, thanks!

When this issue is fixed in 1215295, this bug can be closed.
Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:42:54 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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