From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 22:36:31 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] rpcbind: add upstream security fix for CVE-2017-8779 In-Reply-To: <20170515210124.6657-1-peter@korsgaard.com> (Peter Korsgaard's message of "Mon, 15 May 2017 23:01:24 +0200") References: <20170515210124.6657-1-peter@korsgaard.com> Message-ID: <87tw4j43w0.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Korsgaard 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 Committed to 2017.02.x, thanks. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard