Debian Bug report logs - #778413
alpine: CVE-2015-2305: Henry Spencer regular expressions (regex) library contains a heap overflow vulnerability

Package: alpine; Maintainer for alpine is Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org>; Source for alpine is src:alpine (PTS, buildd, popcon).

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

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 16:00:06 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: patch, security

Done: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org>:
Bug#778413; Package alpine. (Sat, 14 Feb 2015 16:00:11 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Luciano Bello <luciano@debian.org>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org>. (Sat, 14 Feb 2015 16:00:11 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 15:39:51 +0100
Package: alpine
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



Reply sent to Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>:
You have taken responsibility. (Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:36:14 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Notification sent to Luciano Bello <luciano@debian.org>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:36:14 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at 778413-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>
To: 778413-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Henry Spencer regular expressions (regex) library contains a heap overflow vulnerability
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:29:46 +0100
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 03:39:51PM +0100, Luciano Bello wrote:
> Package: alpine
> 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 configure scripts selects the regex code from glibc, so this doesn't
affect Debian.

Asheesh, it would still be useful to forward this upstream so that they
update the local copy for the benefit of people not using glibc.

Cheers,
        Moritz



Changed Bug title to 'alpine: 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 11:57:19 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <owner@bugs.debian.org> to internal_control@bugs.debian.org. (Tue, 14 Apr 2015 07:26:58 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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