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Re: glibc - CVE for library bug that requires application participation
From: cve-assign () mitre org
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 01:44:45 -0400 (EDT)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In this type of situation, the requirement for "application participation" does not affect whether a CVE ID can be assigned.
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17048 posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen fails to copy the path argument ... Per the specification ... it is supposed to.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/posix_spawn_file_actions_addclose.html http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen.html
IEEE PASC Interpretation 1003.1 #105 is applied, adding a note to the DESCRIPTION that the string pointed to by path is copied by the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen() function.
http://standards.ieee.org/findstds/interps/1003-1-90_int/pasc-1003.1d-105.html Finalized interpretation: 29 August 2000
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html The GNU C Library ... follows all relevant standards including POSIX.1-2008
Without researching the POSIX standards process in detail, it seems likely that a 29 August 2000 interpretation can reasonably be considered required behavior for a library claiming to follow POSIX.1-2008. Use CVE-2014-4043. (If it were the case that the relevant POSIX interpretation happened last month, and a new glibc release implementing that interpretation simply wasn't ready yet, then probably a CVE ID couldn't be assigned. But this seems like almost 14 years.) - -- CVE assignment team, MITRE CVE Numbering Authority M/S M300 202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 USA [ PGP key available through http://cve.mitre.org/cve/request_id.html ] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (SunOS) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTmo73AAoJEKllVAevmvmsKL0H/2U08DxCZqL22H6nZaAyDlhF wYIokK8r1ucQGaDzXA5j32w+S4RoT8ALsxbwqjCFYEg6cFsjE+ojPWS0V0uIvdsI TAUjAY7+HEci8V/u0Ii2G9BDs5AWdIWlTtjLOG+o+PqRvGQKatlGyzr2LY+9jbXl Ys9VnQQL+1U5uTfke2Sj3rfhFdgsTGGtwHf/NZP6nU3mYgUpe99g7GteOxiYO5+f i81mnE2rvgjwiAShpOtooOHElBRsK82icowO6tVW1TjRM3yqaFBWF588Blhkress vmrmT/K2+XY5h2FlTPaezUmmVcOEPwxiIwJ21L8T4RWXEv7i8LAwShS6SFwIB5o= =tUte -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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