Debian Bug report logs - #778391
llvm-toolchain-3.4: CVE-2015-2305: Henry Spencer regular expressions (regex) library contains a heap overflow vulnerability

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Package: llvm-toolchain-3.4; Maintainer for llvm-toolchain-3.4 is (unknown);

Reported by: Luciano Bello <luciano@debian.org>

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 14:27:06 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: patch, security

Fixed in version 1:3.4.2-16+rm

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, LLVM Packaging Team <pkg-llvm-team@lists.alioth.debian.org>:
Bug#778391; Package llvm-toolchain-3.4. (Sat, 14 Feb 2015 14:27:11 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Luciano Bello <luciano@debian.org>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to LLVM Packaging Team <pkg-llvm-team@lists.alioth.debian.org>. (Sat, 14 Feb 2015 14:27:11 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Luciano Bello <luciano@debian.org>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Henry Spencer regular expressions (regex) library contains a heap overflow vulnerability
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 15:23:53 +0100
Package: llvm-toolchain-3.4
Severity: important
Tags: security patch

The security team received a report from the CERT Coordination Center that the 
Henry Spencer regular expressions (regex) library contains a heap overflow 
vulnerability. It looks like this package includes the affected code at that's 
the reason of this bug report.

The patch is available here:
http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blobdiff/4d133046c59a851141519d03553a70e903b3eefc..2841837793bd095a82f477e9c370cfe6cfb3862c:/lib/libc/regex/regcomp.c

Please, can you confirm if the binary packages are affected? Are stable and 
testing affected?

More information, here:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/695940
https://guidovranken.wordpress.com/2015/02/04/full-disclosure-heap-overflow-in-h-spencers-regex-library-on-32-bit-systems/

A CVE id has been requested already and the report will be updated with it 
eventually.

Cheers, luciano



Changed Bug title to 'llvm-toolchain-3.4: CVE-2015-2305: Henry Spencer regular expressions (regex) library contains a heap overflow vulnerability' from 'Henry Spencer regular expressions (regex) library contains a heap overflow vulnerability' Request was from Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:57:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Reply sent to Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>:
You have taken responsibility. (Sun, 27 Dec 2015 13:33:45 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Notification sent to Luciano Bello <luciano@debian.org>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Sun, 27 Dec 2015 13:33:45 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #12 received at 778391-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>
To: 719731-done@bugs.debian.org,720935-done@bugs.debian.org,730466-done@bugs.debian.org,737393-done@bugs.debian.org,741486-done@bugs.debian.org,747123-done@bugs.debian.org,754697-done@bugs.debian.org,755211-done@bugs.debian.org,758007-done@bugs.debian.org,772299-done@bugs.debian.org,772300-done@bugs.debian.org,778391-done@bugs.debian.org,795146-done@bugs.debian.org,805813-done@bugs.debian.org,
Cc: llvm-toolchain-3.4@packages.debian.org, llvm-toolchain-3.4@packages.qa.debian.org
Subject: Bug#783516: Removed package(s) from unstable
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 13:32:12 +0000
Version: 1:3.4.2-16+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package llvm-toolchain-3.4 has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/783516

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org.

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Luca Falavigna (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)



Bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <owner@bugs.debian.org> to internal_control@bugs.debian.org. (Mon, 25 Jan 2016 07:49:46 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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