Bug 1300303 (CVE-2015-8778) - CVE-2015-8778 glibc: Integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r
Summary: CVE-2015-8778 glibc: Integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-8778
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1300304 1358013 1374657
Blocks: 1300316 1386080 1415638
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Reported: 2016-01-20 12:52 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:29 UTC (History)
21 users (show)

Fixed In Version: glibc 2.23
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:47:34 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0680 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: glibc security and bug fix update 2017-03-21 12:36:34 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1916 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2017-08-01 18:05:43 UTC
Sourceware 18240 0 None None None 2019-04-08 16:54:41 UTC

Description Adam Mariš 2016-01-20 12:52:02 UTC 
An integer overflow vulnerability was found in hcreate and hcreate_r which can result in an out-of-bound memory access.  This could lead to application crashes or, potentially, arbitrary code execution.

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18240

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/153
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-01-20 12:52:55 UTC 
Created glibc tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1300304]
Comment 4 Martin Prpič 2016-07-07 07:57:03 UTC 
Mitigation:

Do not use any applications which call hcreate or hcreate_r with a large size argument.

These functions are used only rarely, and most callers supply a constant argument.  Other applications calculate the size argument in such a way that the error condition cannot be triggered.
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-21 10:35:25 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2017:0680 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0680.html
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 18:12:58 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:1916 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1916
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