[Secure-testing-team] Bug#812441: glibc: CVE-2015-8778: Integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: glibc
Version: 2.19-18
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18240

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for glibc.

CVE-2015-8778[0]:
Integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8778
[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18240

Regards,
Salvatore