[VIM] Possible third-party code dupes? (CVE-2014-4043/glibc and CVE-2014-1950/Xen)

Steven M. Christey coley at mitre.org
Mon Oct 6 17:11:15 CDT 2014


All,

BID:68006 is ostensibly for a UAF in GNU glibc, CVE-2014-4043, but 
mentions the xc_cpupool_getinfo() function whereas most sources focus on 
posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen(), which doesn't follow the POSIX 
specification in a way that could open applications to UAFs.

xc_cpupool_getinfo() is associated with CVE-2014-1950 in Xen, and is 
called a UAF.

The researcher credits are different, though BID:68006 credits the same 
people as for CVE-2014-4043.

Was Xen vulnerable to the same glibc issue (which would suggest a CVE 
dupe)?  Or is this a copy-and-paste issue in the BID?

- Steve


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