PublicDateAtUSN: 2016-04-19
Candidate: CVE-2015-8779
PublicDate: 2016-04-19 21:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8779
 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/20/1
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2985-1
Description:
 Stack-based buffer overflow in the catopen function in the GNU C Library
 (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows context-dependent attackers to
 cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary
 code via a long catalog name.
Ubuntu-Description:
 Maksymilian Arciemowicz discovered a stack-based buffer overflow
 in the catopen function in the GNU C Library when handling long
 catalog names.  An attacker could use this to cause a denial of
 service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Notes:
Bugs:
 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17905#c0
Priority: low
Discovered-by: Maksymilian Arciemowicz
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [9.8 CRITICAL]

Patches_eglibc:
upstream_eglibc: needed
precise_eglibc: released (2.15-0ubuntu10.14)
precise/esm_eglibc: released (2.15-0ubuntu10.14)
trusty_eglibc: released (2.19-0ubuntu6.8)
trusty/esm_eglibc: released (2.19-0ubuntu6.8)
vivid_eglibc: DNE
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_eglibc: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_eglibc: DNE
wily_eglibc: DNE
xenial_eglibc: DNE
yakkety_eglibc: DNE
zesty_eglibc: DNE
devel_eglibc: DNE

Patches_glibc:
 upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=0f58539030e436449f79189b6edab17d7479796e
upstream_glibc: needed
precise_glibc: DNE
precise/esm_glibc: DNE
trusty_glibc: DNE
trusty/esm_glibc: DNE
vivid_glibc: ignored (reached end-of-life)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_glibc: ignored (reached end-of-life)
vivid/ubuntu-core_glibc: released (2.21-0ubuntu4.0.7)
wily_glibc: released (2.21-0ubuntu4.2)
xenial_glibc: not-affected (2.23-0ubuntu1)
esm-infra/xenial_glibc: not-affected (2.23-0ubuntu1)
yakkety_glibc: not-affected (2.23-0ubuntu1)
zesty_glibc: not-affected (2.23-0ubuntu1)
devel_glibc: not-affected (2.23-0ubuntu1)