From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] rpcbind: Backport fixes to memory leak security fix
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 08:51:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87372ma2kl.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180118180531.8149-1-ed.blake@sondrel.com> (Ed Blake's message of "Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:05:31 +0000")
>>>>> "Ed" == Ed Blake <ed.blake@sondrel.com> writes:
> Commit 954509f added a security fix for CVE-2017-8779, involving
> pairing all svc_getargs() calls with svc_freeargs() to avoid a memory
> leak. However it also introduced a couple of issues:
> - The call to svc_freeargs() from rpcbproc_callit_com() may result in
> an attempt to free static memory, resulting in undefined behaviour.
> - A typo in the svc_freeargs() call from pmapproc_dump() causes NIS
> (aka ypbind) to fail.
> Backport upstream fixes for these issues to version 0.2.3.
> Change-Id: Ib6cb19d51c0ae682e3868593ef78edea4ef587be
> Signed-off-by: Ed Blake <ed.blake@sondrel.com>
Committed to 2017.02.x, thanks.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-31 7:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-18 18:05 [Buildroot] [PATCH] rpcbind: Backport fixes to memory leak security fix Ed Blake
2018-01-18 21:10 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-01-21 20:28 ` Peter Korsgaard
2018-01-31 7:51 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
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