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GNU C Library master sources branch gentoo/2.22 updated. glibc-2.22-50-g1199943


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commit 1199943f072f8a0c47d9283bc9d8c1740a38a94e
Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Mar 29 12:57:56 2016 +0200

    CVE-2016-3075: Stack overflow in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r [BZ #19879]
    
    The defensive copy is not needed because the name may not alias the
    output buffer.
    
    (cherry picked from commit 317b199b4aff8cfa27f2302ab404d2bb5032b9a4)
    (cherry picked from commit 883dceebc8f11921a9890211a4e202e5be17562f)

diff --git a/resolv/nss_dns/dns-network.c b/resolv/nss_dns/dns-network.c
index 00f4490..89f8783 100644
--- a/resolv/nss_dns/dns-network.c
+++ b/resolv/nss_dns/dns-network.c
@@ -118,17 +118,14 @@ _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r (const char *name, struct netent *result,
   } net_buffer;
   querybuf *orig_net_buffer;
   int anslen;
-  char *qbuf;
   enum nss_status status;
 
   if (__res_maybe_init (&_res, 0) == -1)
     return NSS_STATUS_UNAVAIL;
 
-  qbuf = strdupa (name);
-
   net_buffer.buf = orig_net_buffer = (querybuf *) alloca (1024);
 
-  anslen = __libc_res_nsearch (&_res, qbuf, C_IN, T_PTR, net_buffer.buf->buf,
+  anslen = __libc_res_nsearch (&_res, name, C_IN, T_PTR, net_buffer.buf->buf,
 			       1024, &net_buffer.ptr, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
   if (anslen < 0)
     {

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Summary of changes:
 resolv/nss_dns/dns-network.c |    5 +----
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)


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