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Message-ID: <50FDEC53.9000702@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:33:07 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: CVE Request coreutils
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On 01/21/2013 01:39 PM, Vincent Danen wrote:
> * [2013-01-21 19:17:49 +0100] Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
>
>>> Can someone assign a CVE id for a buffer overflow in
>>> coreutils? Its the same code snippet (coreutils-i18n.patch) and
>>> it affects sort, uniq and join:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798538
>>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796243
>>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798541
>>
>> Could you send the faulty patch to the list so that distros can
>> validate that they don't include it themselves?
>
> Red Hat/Fedora do include this patch, so it's more than just SUSE
> that ships them. However, when I was looking at them last week,
> this struck me as just a non-exploitable crash and unless I'm
> missing something, I think it would be quite the stretch to call it
> a security flaw.
Agreed, there is no significant impact of exploitation and there is no
real easy way to trick a victim into doing this (and even if you do,
so what? now if it was code exec we might be talking about something
interesting).
- --
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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