608698 – (CVE-2015-5180) <sys-libs/glibc-2.23-r4: DNS resolver NULL pointer dereference with crafted record type

Bug 608698 (CVE-2015-5180) - <sys-libs/glibc-2.23-r4: DNS resolver NULL pointer dereference with crafted record type

Summary: <sys-libs/glibc-2.23-r4: DNS resolver NULL pointer dereference with crafted r...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	CVE-2015-5180

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

URL:	https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/...
Whiteboard:	A3 [glsa cve glsa blocked]
Keywords:

Depends on:	CVE-2017-1000366
Blocks:
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Reported:	2017-02-09 09:08 UTC by Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED)
Modified:	2017-06-20 17:55 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

See Also:	https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18784
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Description Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-02-09 09:08:54 UTC

CVE-2015-5180

DNS resolver NULL pointer dereference with crafted record type

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18784

Upstream patch:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=fc82b0a2dfe7dbd35671c10510a8da1043d746a5

Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-02-09 09:10:11 UTC

@ Maintainer(s): The vulnerabilities is fixed in >=sys-libs/glibc-2.25. Please bump the package and tell us if you plan to backport the fix.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2017-02-09 11:40:47 UTC

this is in the 2.24 ebuild now

Comment 3 Matthias Maier gentoo-dev

2017-06-19 16:31:50 UTC

commit c46d0e63310fe68ed4bf6a3b0c3fbcc5d4d9918b
Author: Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org>
Date:   Thu Jun 8 12:14:52 2017 -0500

    sys-libs/glibc: bump 2.23 to patchset 8
    
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.6, Repoman-2.3.2

Comment 4 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2017-06-20 17:55:26 UTC

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201706-19 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-19
by GLSA coordinator Thomas Deutschmann (whissi).