[PATCH] CVE-2014-8121: Fix nss_files file management [BZ#18007]

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Wed Mar 25 12:43:00 GMT 2015


Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> Sorry, I don't see how this can be retrofitted on top of the existing
> NSS API.  It assumes that the NSS module keeps the iteration state in
> a per-module global variable.

That's the bug.

> The fix I proposed builds on Ulrich's original patch which attempted
> to separate the state for lookup and iteration, but failed to do so
> because of that incorrectly initialized variable.

There is no "incorrectly initialized variable".

Andreas.

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