[Secure-testing-team] Bug#813187: glibc: CVE-2014-9761: Unbounded stack allocation in nan* functions

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: glibc
Version: 2.19-18
Severity: normal
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16962

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for glibc, reporting it as
well to the BTS to have a BTS <-> security-tracker cross reference.

CVE-2014-9761[0]:
nan function unbounded stack allocation

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-2014-9761
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300310
[2] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16962

Regards,
Salvatore