[Secure-testing-team] Bug#812455: glibc: CVE-2015-8779: Unbounded stack allocation in catopen function

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: glibc
Version: 2.19-18
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17905

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for glibc.

CVE-2015-8779[0]:
catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations

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-2015-8779
[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17905

Regards,
Salvatore