Bug 1302622 (CVE-2016-2090) - CVE-2016-2090 libbsd: heap buffer overflow in fgetwln function
Summary: CVE-2016-2090 libbsd: heap buffer overflow in fgetwln function
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2016-2090
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1302623 1302624 1302625 1302626
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-01-28 09:58 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:24 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: libbsd 0.8.2
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:47:59 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-01-28 09:58:04 UTC 
libbsd 0.8.1 and earlier contains a buffer overflow in the function
fgetwln(). An if checks if it is necessary to reallocate memory in the
target buffer. However this check is off by one, therefore an out of
bounds write happens.

Original bug report

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93881

Upstream fix:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbsd/commit/?id=c8f0723d2b4520bdd6b9eb7c3e7976de726d7ff7

External reference:

https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/36-Heap-buffer-overflow-in-fgetwln-function-of-libbsd.html

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/234
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-01-28 09:58:50 UTC 
Created libbsd tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1302623]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1302624]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1302625]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1302626]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:47:59 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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