[Bug 779391] Re: CVE-2011-1764: format string vulnerability

Kees Cook kees at ubuntu.com
Mon May 9 23:43:48 UTC 2011


AAaargh. Who reimplements sprintf!? I am working on hardy and dapper
now. Will have this uploaded shortly. Thanks for double-checking and
getting the Lucid and Oneiric patches ready!

At least full ASLR (PIE[1]) is in place in Lucid and later, so
exploiting this is difficult, but not impossible.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features#pie

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Server Team, which is subscribed to exim4 in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/779391

Title:
  CVE-2011-1764: format string vulnerability



More information about the Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list