From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] rpcbind: add upstream security fix for CVE-2017-8779
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 22:36:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tw4j43w0.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170515210124.6657-1-peter@korsgaard.com> (Peter Korsgaard's message of "Mon, 15 May 2017 23:01:24 +0200")
>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> writes:
> CVE-2017-8779: rpcbind through 0.2.4, LIBTIRPC through 1.0.1 and 1.0.2-rc
> through 1.0.2-rc3, and NTIRPC through 1.4.3 do not consider the maximum RPC
> data size during memory allocation for XDR strings, which allows remote
> attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption with no
> subsequent free) via a crafted UDP packet to port 111, aka rpcbomb.
> For more details, see:
> https://guidovranken.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/rpcbomb-remote-rpcbind-denial-of-service-patches/
> Backport upstream fix to version 0.2.3 and unconditionally include syslog.h
> to fix a build issue when RPCBIND_DEBUG is disabled (which it is in
> Buildroot).
> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Committed to 2017.02.x, thanks.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-15 21:01 [Buildroot] [PATCH] rpcbind: add upstream security fix for CVE-2017-8779 Peter Korsgaard
2017-05-16 7:25 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-05-17 20:36 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
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