Re: Bug#714219: [Debian #714219] libc6: crypt(3) returns NULL with EINVAL instead of falling back to DES, breaking GNU software

2013-07-03 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Alexandre Oliva aol...@redhat.com wrote: At this point, I'd rather we took the opportunity to fix code that makes unsafe assumptions about the behavior of crypt than push the problem on for users to figure out when a glibc upgrade causes passwords to fail to be

Bug#704623: eglibc: CVE-2013-1914: getaddrinfo() stack overflow

2013-07-03 Thread Raphael Geissert
Control: found -1 2.11.3-1 Hi, The upstream commit referenced above isn't enough for, at least, squeeze's 2.11.3. There's another stack overflow in gaih_inet when calling gethostbyname4_r. 2.17 uses malloc if needed, and git blames the following commit for those changes:

Processed: Re: Bug#704623: eglibc: CVE-2013-1914: getaddrinfo() stack overflow

2013-07-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: found -1 2.11.3-1 Bug #704623 {Done: Aurelien Jarno aure...@debian.org} [eglibc] eglibc: CVE-2013-1914: getaddrinfo() stack overflow There is no source info for the package 'eglibc' at version '2.11.3-1' with architecture '' Unable to make a source version for

Bug#714219: libc6: crypt(3) returns NULL with EINVAL instead of falling back to DES, breaking GNU software

2013-07-03 Thread mancha
Please see my bug report for CVS documenting this behavior as well as my patch: https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?39040 --mancha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-glibc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Bug#714219: libc6: crypt(3) returns NULL with EINVAL instead of falling back to DES, breaking GNU software

2013-07-03 Thread mancha
Dear all: You might be interested in a project of mine which humbly began as helping the Slackware Linux team patch their Shadow tools suite to properly handle possible NULL returns from glibc 2.17+ crypt(). It since has evolved into a larger project where I have been working with developers to