From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2017.02.x] musl: add upstream security fix for CVE-2017-15650
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 18:29:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877evocvm6.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171021092515.5812-1-peter@korsgaard.com> (Peter Korsgaard's message of "Sat, 21 Oct 2017 11:25:15 +0200")
>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> writes:
> From the upstream announcement:
> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/19/5
> Felix Wilhelm has discovered a flaw in the dns response parsing for
> musl libc 1.1.16 that leads to overflow of a stack-based buffer.
> Earlier versions are also affected.
> When an application makes a request via getaddrinfo for both IPv4 and
> IPv6 results (AF_UNSPEC), an attacker who controls or can spoof the
> nameservers configured in resolv.conf can reply to both the A and AAAA
> queries with A results. Since A records are smaller than AAAA records,
> it's possible to fit more addresses than the precomputed bound, and a
> buffer overflow occurs.
> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Committed to 2017.02.x, thanks.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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2017-10-21 9:25 [Buildroot] [PATCH 2017.02.x] musl: add upstream security fix for CVE-2017-15650 Peter Korsgaard
2017-10-21 16:29 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2017-10-25 7:41 ` Peter Korsgaard
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