CVE-2015-8779

Desbordamiento de buffer basado en pila en la función catopen en la GNU C Library (también conocida como glibc o libc6) en versiones anteriores a 2.23 permite a atacantes dependientes de contexto causar una denegación de servicio (caída de aplicación) o posiblemente ejecutar código arbitrario a través de un nombre de catálogo largo.

A stack based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the catopen() function. An excessively long string passed to the function could cause it to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code.

Martin Carpenter discovered that pt_chown in the GNU C Library did not properly check permissions for tty files. A local attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges or expose sensitive information. Robin Hack discovered that the Name Service Switch (NSS) implementation in the GNU C Library did not properly manage its file descriptors. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (infinite loop). Various other issues were also addressed.