gc is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS). It is possible due to lack of parameter sanitization, allowing the attacker to pass malicious input to the alloc()
and calloc()
routines.
kqueue.org/blog/2012/03/05/memory-allocator-security-revisited/
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082926.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082988.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1500.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0149.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0150.html
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:158
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/05/1
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/07/13
www.securityfocus.com/bid/54227
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1546-1
access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/blob/master/ChangeLog
github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/commit/6a93f8e5bcad22137f41b6c60a1c7384baaec2b3
github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/commit/83231d0ab5ed60015797c3d1ad9056295ac3b2bb
github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/commit/be9df82919960214ee4b9d3313523bff44fd99e1
github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/commit/e10c1eb9908c2774c16b3148b30d2f3823d66a9a
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1500.html