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authorWaldemar Brodkorb <wbx@uclibc-ng.org>2016-08-05 21:33:44 +0200
committerWaldemar Brodkorb <wbx@uclibc-ng.org>2016-08-05 21:33:44 +0200
commit9213ad631513d0e67d9d31465c9cdb3f3dde0399 (patch)
tree046479bb8e8b66192c8227f2054e3260e3dcd483 /libc/string
parent79dc2c282b655adb8d5075d9eb2519883042ccf8 (diff)
sunrpc: Do not use alloca in clntudp_call
CVE-2016-4429: The call is technically in a loop, and under certain circumstances (which are quite difficult to reproduce in a test case), alloca can be invoked repeatedly during a single call to clntudp_call. As a result, the available stack space can be exhausted (even though individual alloca sizes are bounded implicitly by what can fit into a UDP packet, as a side effect of the earlier successful send operation). From GNU libc: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=bc779a1a5b3035133024b21e2f339fe4219fb11c
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