[Bug 1048203]

[mancha]

Hello. I applied Siddhesh's three patches (2 CVE fixes + strcoll
refactoring) and the PoCs no longer trigger overflows.

What is a reasonable runtime to expect on those PoCs post-patch?

I ask because last night I left Joseph's code running on a ~2.3GHz Intel
and it was still going this morning [was in seq_next_seq_nocache()].

Thanks!

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Title:
  (CVE-2012-4412) glibc: strcoll() integer overflow leading to buffer
  overflow

Status in The GNU C Library:
  Fix Released
Status in “eglibc” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “eglibc” package in Debian:
  New
Status in Fedora:
  Unknown
Status in Gentoo Linux:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  An integer overflow, leading to buffer overflow flaw was found in the
  way the implementation of strcoll() routine, used to compare two
  strings based on the current locale, of glibc, the GNU libc libraries,
  performed calculation of memory requirements / allocation, needed for
  storage of the strings. If an application linked against glibc was
  missing an application-level sanity checks for validity of strcoll()
  arguments and accepted untrusted input, an attacker could use this
  flaw to cause the particular application to crash or, potentially,
  execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the
  application.

  Upstream bug report (including reproducer):
  [1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14547

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