commit 2959eda9272a033863c271aff62095abd01bd4e3 Author: Arjun Shankar Date: Tue Apr 21 14:06:31 2015 +0200 CVE-2015-1781: resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c buffer overflow [BZ#18287] diff --git glibc-2.17-c758a686/resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c glibc-2.17-c758a686/resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c index b16b0dd..d8c5579 100644 --- glibc-2.17-c758a686/resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c +++ glibc-2.17-c758a686/resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c @@ -613,7 +613,8 @@ int have_to_map = 0; uintptr_t pad = -(uintptr_t) buffer % __alignof__ (struct host_data); buffer += pad; - if (__builtin_expect (buflen < sizeof (struct host_data) + pad, 0)) + buflen = buflen > pad ? buflen - pad : 0; + if (__builtin_expect (buflen < sizeof (struct host_data), 0)) { /* The buffer is too small. */ too_small: