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  • Committer: Steve Beattie
  • Date: 2019-02-19 06:18:27 UTC
  • Revision ID: sbeattie@ubuntu.com-20190219061827-oh57fzcfc1u9dlfk
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Candidate: CVE-2015-8985
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PublicDate: 2017-03-20
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References:
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 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8985
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Description:
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 The pop_fail_stack function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6)
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 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion
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 failure and application crash) via vectors related to extended regular
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 expression processing.
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Ubuntu-Description:
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Notes:
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 sbeattie> PoC testcase in upstream bug report
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 sbeattie> no upstream fix as of 2017-12-19
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Bugs:
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 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21163
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 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=779392
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Priority: low
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Discovered-by:
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Assigned-to:
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Patches_eglibc:
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upstream_eglibc: needed
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precise_eglibc: ignored (reached end-of-life)
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precise/esm_eglibc: deferred (2017-12-19)
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trusty_eglibc: deferred (2017-12-19)
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vivid/ubuntu-core_eglibc: DNE
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vivid/stable-phone-overlay_eglibc: DNE
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xenial_eglibc: DNE
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yakkety_eglibc: DNE
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zesty_eglibc: DNE
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artful_eglibc: DNE
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bionic_eglibc: DNE
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devel_eglibc: DNE
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Patches_glibc:
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upstream_glibc: needed
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precise_glibc: DNE
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precise/esm_glibc: DNE
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trusty_glibc: DNE
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vivid/ubuntu-core_glibc: ignored (reached end-of-life)
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vivid/stable-phone-overlay_glibc: ignored (reached end-of-life)
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xenial_glibc: deferred (2017-12-19)
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yakkety_glibc: ignored (reached end-of-life)
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zesty_glibc: ignored (reached end-of-life)
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artful_glibc: deferred (2017-12-19)
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bionic_glibc: deferred (2017-12-19)
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devel_glibc: deferred (2017-12-19)