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Revise description of CVE-2015-3166, in line with scaled-back patch. Change release date. Security: CVE-2015-3166
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<title>Release Date</title>
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<title>Release Date</title>
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<simpara>2015-05-21</simpara>
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<simpara>2015-05-22</simpara>
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<para>
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<para>
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Consistently check for failure of the <function>*printf()</> family of
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Improve detection of system-call failures (Noah Misch)
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functions (Noah Misch)
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<para>
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Most calls of these functions did not consider the possibility that
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Our replacement implementation of <function>snprintf()</> failed to
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the functions could fail with, eg, out-of-memory conditions. The usual
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check for errors reported by the underlying system library calls;
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result would just be missing output, but crashes or exposure of
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the main case that might be missed is out-of-memory situations.
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unintended information are also possible. To protect against such
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In the worst case this might lead to information exposure, due to our
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risks uniformly, create wrappers around these functions that throw an
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code assuming that a buffer had been overwritten when it hadn't been.
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error on failure. Also add missing error checks to a few
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Also, there were a few places in which security-relevant calls of other
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security-relevant calls of other system functions.
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system library functions did not check for failure.
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</para>
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<para>
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It remains possible that some calls of the <function>*printf()</>
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family of functions are vulnerable to information disclosure if an
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out-of-memory error occurs at just the wrong time. We judge the risk
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to not be large, but will continue analysis in this area.
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(CVE-2015-3166)
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(CVE-2015-3166)
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<note>
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<note>
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<title>Release Date</title>
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<title>Release Date</title>
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<simpara>2015-05-21</simpara>
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<simpara>2015-05-22</simpara>
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</note>
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</note>
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<listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<para>
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Consistently check for failure of the <function>*printf()</> family of
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Improve detection of system-call failures (Noah Misch)
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functions (Noah Misch)
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</para>
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</para>
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<para>
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<para>
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Most calls of these functions did not consider the possibility that
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Our replacement implementation of <function>snprintf()</> failed to
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the functions could fail with, eg, out-of-memory conditions. The usual
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check for errors reported by the underlying system library calls;
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result would just be missing output, but crashes or exposure of
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the main case that might be missed is out-of-memory situations.
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unintended information are also possible. To protect against such
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In the worst case this might lead to information exposure, due to our
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risks uniformly, create wrappers around these functions that throw an
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code assuming that a buffer had been overwritten when it hadn't been.
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error on failure. Also add missing error checks to a few
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Also, there were a few places in which security-relevant calls of other
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security-relevant calls of other system functions.
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system library functions did not check for failure.
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</para>
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<para>
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It remains possible that some calls of the <function>*printf()</>
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family of functions are vulnerable to information disclosure if an
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out-of-memory error occurs at just the wrong time. We judge the risk
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to not be large, but will continue analysis in this area.
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(CVE-2015-3166)
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(CVE-2015-3166)
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<title>Release Date</title>
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<title>Release Date</title>
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<simpara>2015-05-21</simpara>
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<simpara>2015-05-22</simpara>
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<para>
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<para>
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Consistently check for failure of the <function>*printf()</> family of
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Improve detection of system-call failures (Noah Misch)
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functions (Noah Misch)
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</para>
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</para>
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<para>
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Most calls of these functions did not consider the possibility that
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Our replacement implementation of <function>snprintf()</> failed to
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the functions could fail with, eg, out-of-memory conditions. The usual
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check for errors reported by the underlying system library calls;
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result would just be missing output, but crashes or exposure of
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the main case that might be missed is out-of-memory situations.
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unintended information are also possible. To protect against such
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In the worst case this might lead to information exposure, due to our
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risks uniformly, create wrappers around these functions that throw an
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code assuming that a buffer had been overwritten when it hadn't been.
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error on failure. Also add missing error checks to a few
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Also, there were a few places in which security-relevant calls of other
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security-relevant calls of other system functions.
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system library functions did not check for failure.
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</para>
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<para>
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It remains possible that some calls of the <function>*printf()</>
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family of functions are vulnerable to information disclosure if an
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out-of-memory error occurs at just the wrong time. We judge the risk
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to not be large, but will continue analysis in this area.
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(CVE-2015-3166)
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(CVE-2015-3166)
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