Re: CVE request: Invalid pointer dereference in the GNOME librest library

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> The OAuth implementation in librest, a helper library for RESTful
> services part of the GNOME project, incorrectly truncates the pointer
> returned by the rest_proxy_call_get_url function call, leading to an
> application crash, or worse.
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742644
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/librest/commit/?id=b50ace7738ea03817acdad87fb2b338a86018329
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1183982
>
> The security impact was noted in 2015, although the bug was fixed in 2014.

> will lead to memory errors when the size of an int is not the same as
> a pointer

Use CVE-2015-2675.

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