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Date:      Mon, 1 Feb 2021 17:27:50 +0000
From:      Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org>
To:        Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 5299d64b2b9f - main - libc: fix buffer overrun in getrpcport(3)
Message-ID:  <YBg6FtmmikNgCLJA@brick>
In-Reply-To: <YBg5r3eKF1KWSPJ/@brick>
References:  <202101312143.10VLhfV5025431@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <20210131215556.eautrr6esynyic6f@mutt-hbsd> <YBg5r3eKF1KWSPJ/@brick>

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On 0201T1726, Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote:
> On 0131T1655, Shawn Webb wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 09:43:41PM +0000, Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote:

[..]

> > Does a fix like this need to get a security advisory report? Also, any
> > plans to MFC?
> 
> Sorry, I should have used a better commit message...   I don't think
> this is exploitable, or even triggerable - from my understanding, the
> gethostbyname(3) function cannot return non-AF_INET address, unless
> some internal resolver option has been set, which none of the programs
> using getrpcport(3) seems to do.

Oh, and yes, MFC is planned; I'm not sure what's the current way to mark
commits to get an MFC reminder.




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