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* How to find the original code that causes a CVE?
@ 2021-03-25 20:35 Peng Yu
  2021-03-25 20:46 ` tomas
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Peng Yu @ 2021-03-25 20:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: libc-help

Hi,

https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-16997/

I see this CVE for glibc. But it is not clear how to look up which
line of the source code causes this vulnerability. Could anybody show
me how to look this up?

-- 
Regards,
Peng

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* Re: How to find the original code that causes a CVE?
  2021-03-25 20:35 How to find the original code that causes a CVE? Peng Yu
@ 2021-03-25 20:46 ` tomas
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: tomas @ 2021-03-25 20:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Peng Yu; +Cc: libc-help

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On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 03:35:33PM -0500, Peng Yu via Libc-help wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-16997/
> 
> I see this CVE for glibc. But it is not clear how to look up which
> line of the source code causes this vulnerability. Could anybody show
> me how to look this up?

You can look it up in the glibc bug database:

  https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-16997

Cheers
-- tomas

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