Re:CVE-2015-8126: Multiple buffer overflows in libpng
by heinrich5991 on Saturday November 14, 2015 @02:12PM
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Is this more than a denial of service due to crashes?
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Re:CVE-2015-8126: Multiple buffer overflows in libpng
by jimrandomh on Saturday November 14, 2015 @02:21PM
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No one's published an example which causes arbitrary code execution yet (that I'm aware of), but most bugs of this type end up there eventually.
Re:CVE-2015-8126: Multiple buffer overflows in libpng
by airza on Saturday November 14, 2015 @02:57PM
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You'd need an infoleak but from somewhere, but I doubt anyone who has one will come forward.
Re:CVE-2015-8126: Multiple buffer overflows in libpng
by bennofs on Saturday November 14, 2015 @02:19PM
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I guess the problem is that you don't know:
> allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact
As far as I understand, trying to predict what is possible by exploiting a buffer overflow is hard because it depends on many specifics, such as compiler options used, OS protections, ...