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glibc: Unbounded stack allocation in catopen function

🗓️ 01 Aug 2017 14:05:43Reported by RedHatType 
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glibc has a stack based buffer overflow in the catopen function from an unbounded input string.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux7ppc64glibc0:2.17-196.el7glibc-0:2.17-196.el7.ppc64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux7ppc64leglibc0:2.17-196.el7glibc-0:2.17-196.el7.ppc64le.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux7s390glibc0:2.17-196.el7glibc-0:2.17-196.el7.s390.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux7s390xglibc0:2.17-196.el7glibc-0:2.17-196.el7.s390x.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux7x86_64glibc0:2.17-196.el7glibc-0:2.17-196.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux7anyglibc0:2.17-196.el7.i686glibc-0:2.17-196.el7.i686.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux7aarch64glibc-common0:2.17-196.el7glibc-common-0:2.17-196.el7.aarch64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux7ppc64glibc-common0:2.17-196.el7glibc-common-0:2.17-196.el7.ppc64.rpm
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