Bug 943015 (CVE-2015-5229) - VUL-1: CVE-2015-5229: glibc: calloc may return non-zero memory
Summary: VUL-1: CVE-2015-5229: glibc: calloc may return non-zero memory
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: CVE-2015-5229
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Minor
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Assignee: Andreas Schwab
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/137643/
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Reported: 2015-08-25 08:36 UTC by Sebastian Krahmer
Modified: 2015-08-31 13:13 UTC (History)
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Description Sebastian Krahmer 2015-08-25 08:36:04 UTC 
rh#1256285

calloc() may return non-zero memory which may cause info-leak issues


References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1256285
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-5229
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5229
Comment 1 Andreas Schwab 2015-08-25 09:42:22 UTC 
This was a bug in a RedHat-only patch, see <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246713>.