A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way glibc's gethostbyname_r() and
other related functions computed the size of a buffer when passed a
misaligned buffer as input. An attacker able to make an application call
any of these functions with a misaligned buffer could use this flaw to
crash the application or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the
permissions of the user running the application.
Signed-off-by: Haris Okanovic <haris.okanovic@ni.com> Reviewed-by: Ben Shelton <ben.shelton@ni.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
