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Message-Id: <20140813060155.B57B0C504B9@smtptsrv1.mitre.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 02:01:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: fweimer@...hat.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [CVE Request] glibc iconv_open buffer overflow (was: Re: Re: glibc locale issues)

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>> iconv/gconv_charset.h:strip() normalizes the transliteration argument to
>> iconv_open, so the resulting file names follow a particular pattern, and
>> there cannot be enough slashes to ascend to a writable directory.
>>
>>> if not maybe the one byte overflow is still exploitable.
>>
>> Hmm.  How likely is that?  It overflows in to malloc metadata, and the
>> glibc malloc hardening should catch that these days.
>
> Not necessarily on 32-bit architectures, so I agree with Tavis now, and
> we need a CVE.  The upstream bug is:
>
>    <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17187>

Use CVE-2014-5119. A CVE-2005-#### number isn't needed because the
msg00091.html message (referenced in 17187) does not state any
security implications.

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