Re: glibc and alloca()

[Graham Gower <graham.gower () gmail com>]

On 25 February 2011 18:52, Maksymilian Arciemowicz
<cxib () securityreason com> wrote:
> Chris Evans <scarybeasts <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > Linux distribution might still have vulnerabilities in this area.
>
> proftpd use gnu libc implementation
>
> http://www.proftpd.org/docs/RELEASE_NOTES-1.3.4rc1
>  + Updated fnmatch implementation, using glibc-2.9 version.
>
> Version 1.3.3d may contain this issue

http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=f15ce4d8dc139523fe0c273580b604b2453acba6

http://proftp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/proftp/proftpd/lib/pr_fnmatch.c?revision=1.9&view=markup
http://proftp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/proftp/proftpd/lib/pr_fnmatch_loop.c?revision=1.9&view=markup

Perhaps they need to update the fnmatch implementation again.

-Graham

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