Re: CVE Request: glibc getaddrinfo() stack overflow

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

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On 04/03/2013 05:10 AM, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A customer reported a glibc crash, which turned out to be a stack
> overflow in getaddrinfo().
>
> getaddrinfo() uses: struct sort_result results[nresults]; with
> nresults controlled by the nameservice chain (DNS or /etc/hosts).
>
> This will be visible mostly on threaded applications with smaller
> stacksizes, or operating near out of stack.
>
> Reproducer I tried: $ for i in `seq 1 10000000`; do echo "ff00::$i
> a1" >>/etc/hosts; done $ ulimit -s 1024 $ telnet a1 Segmentation
> fault (clean out /etc/hosts again )
>
>
> I am not sure you can usually push this amount of addresses via DNS
> for all setups.
>
> Andreas is currently pushing the patch to glibc GIT.
>
> Reference: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=813121
>
> Ciao, Marcus

Please use CVE-2013-1914 for this issue.

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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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