[glibc] advisories: Reject GLIBC-SA-2026-0008
Carlos O'Donell via Glibc-cvs <[email protected]>
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https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=969cc1df8f467ce3367149628da426692c774083 commit 969cc1df8f467ce3367149628da426692c774083 Author: Carlos O'Donell <[email protected]> Date: Tue Apr 21 12:17:02 2026 -0400 advisories: Reject GLIBC-SA-2026-0008 Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <[email protected]> Diff: --- advisories/GLIBC-SA-2026-0008 | 26 ++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/advisories/GLIBC-SA-2026-0008 b/advisories/GLIBC-SA-2026-0008 index 1dbd9808e0..43b38ce38a 100644 --- a/advisories/GLIBC-SA-2026-0008 +++ b/advisories/GLIBC-SA-2026-0008 @@ -1,16 +1,22 @@ -Static buffer overflow in deprecated nis_local_principal +REJECTED: Static buffer overflow in deprecated nis_local_principal -The obsolete nis_local_principal function in the GNU C Library version -2.43 and older may overflow a buffer in the data section, which could -allow an attacker to spoof a crafted response to a UDP request generated -by this function and overwrite neighboring static data in the requesting -application. +REJECTED: CVE-2026-5358 is rejected for two reasons. Firstly it has been +discovered that no NIS+ client or server was ever released for any +Linux-based OS distributions and as such this makes the API provisional +and unused. Secondly it has been discovered that the NIS+ cold start +cache (/var/nis/NIS_COLD_START) cannot be bypassed and as such the API +can only be called with a trusted server from the pre-populated cache. +The use of a trusted server means no trust boundary is crossed and this +is therefore considered a normal bug. -NIS support is obsolete and has been deprecated in the GNU C Library -since version 2.26 and is only maintained for legacy usage. Applications -should port away from NIS to more modern identity and access management -services. +NIS+ support in the GNU C Library was never officially supported even +though an incomplete implementation of the APIs was made pulibc. To the +best knowledge of the glibc security team no open-source NIS+ server +implementations were ever released for use with this API. Applications +should not use any of the NIS+ APIs and should move to modern identity +and access management services. CVE-Id: CVE-2026-5358 Public-Date: 2026-04-10 +Rejected-Date: 2026-04-33 Reported-by: Rahul Hoysala