glibc: CVE-2015-8777

The process_envvars function in elf/rtld.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or
libc6) before 2.23 allows local users to bypass a pointer-guarding protection
mechanism via a zero value of the LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable.

(From OE-Core rev: 22570ba08d7c6157aec58764c73b1134405b0252)

(From OE-Core rev: bb6ce1334bfb3711428b4b82bca4c0d5339ee2f8)

Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster808@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc_2.20.bb b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc_2.20.bb
index a928293ed4..5e03570cf3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc_2.20.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc_2.20.bb
@@ -48,7 +48,9 @@ CVEPATCHES = "\
         file://CVE-2015-1781-resolv-nss_dns-dns-host.c-buffer-overf.patch \
         file://CVE-2015-1472-wscanf-allocates-too-little-memory.patch \
         file://CVE-2015-7547.patch \
-    "
+        file://CVE-2015-8777.patch \
+"
+
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSES;md5=e9a558e243b36d3209f380deb394b213 \
       file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
       file://posix/rxspencer/COPYRIGHT;md5=dc5485bb394a13b2332ec1c785f5d83a \