http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1037930 Bug ID: 1037930 Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2017-8804: glibc, sunrpc: Memory leak after deserialization failure in xdr_bytes, xdr_string Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Distribution Version: Leap 42.2 Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Security Assignee: security-team@suse.de Reporter: mikhail.kasimov@gmail.com QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- Ref: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8804 ==================================================== Description The xdr_bytes and xdr_string functions in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.25 mishandle failures of buffer deserialization, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (virtual memory allocation, or memory consumption if an overcommit setting is not used) via a crafted UDP packet to port 111, a related issue to CVE-2017-8779. ==================================================== Hyperlink [1] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/05/2 [2] https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037559#c7 (CVE-2017-8779) [3] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21461 (upstream report) [4] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-05/msg00105.html (patch) [5] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8804 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.