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CVE-2016-4429: sunrpc: Do not use alloca in clntudp_call [BZ #20112]
authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Mon, 23 May 2016 18:18:34 +0000 (20:18 +0200)
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Mon, 23 May 2016 18:18:34 +0000 (20:18 +0200)
commitbc779a1a5b3035133024b21e2f339fe4219fb11c
tree6c7b4ca874d7277de7a4f77d20f3013380ee79bf
parent3375cfafa7961c6ae0e509c31c3b3cef9ad1f03d
CVE-2016-4429: sunrpc: Do not use alloca in clntudp_call [BZ #20112]

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).
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