[PATCH v2] vfprintf stack overflow [BZ #16617]

[Allan McRae]

On 12/12/14 20:07, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 12/08/2014 04:59 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> On 12/08/2014 04:41 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
>>> On Mon, 8 Dec 2014, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>>
>>>> +        specs = malloc (nspecs_size);
>>>> +        if (specs == NULL)
>>>> +          {
>>>> +            __set_errno (ENOMEM);
>>>> +            done = -1;
>>>> +            goto all_done;
>>>> +          }
>>>
>>> It looks to me like this will leak the previous copy of specs on
>>> allocation failure, if the previous value was also malloced (so you need
>>> "specs = old;" or similar here to get the return path to free it if
>>> appropriate).
>>
>> Ugh, thanks, I've made that change.  Anything else?
> 
> FYI, I plan to commit this in Monday so that this doesn't fall through
> the cracks again.

Are you going to backport this to release branches?