glibc-2.23: Fix CVE-2016-3075 [No upstream tracking] -- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-3075 resolv/nss_dns/dns-network.c: Stack overflow in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r The defensive copy is not needed because the name may not alias the output buffer. Upstream-Status: Backport CVE: CVE-2016-3075 Signed-off-by: Andrej Valek Signed-off-by: Pascal Bach diff --git a/resolv/nss_dns/dns-network.c b/resolv/nss_dns/dns-network.c index 2eb2f67..8f301a7 100644 --- a/resolv/nss_dns/dns-network.c +++ b/resolv/nss_dns/dns-network.c @@ -118,17 +118,14 @@ _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r (const char *name, struct netent *result, } net_buffer; querybuf *orig_net_buffer; int anslen; - char *qbuf; enum nss_status status; if (__res_maybe_init (&_res, 0) == -1) return NSS_STATUS_UNAVAIL; - qbuf = strdupa (name); - net_buffer.buf = orig_net_buffer = (querybuf *) alloca (1024); - anslen = __libc_res_nsearch (&_res, qbuf, C_IN, T_PTR, net_buffer.buf->buf, + anslen = __libc_res_nsearch (&_res, name, C_IN, T_PTR, net_buffer.buf->buf, 1024, &net_buffer.ptr, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL); if (anslen < 0) {