An out-of buffer bounds write flaw was found in the way readdir_r() routine of glibc, the collection of GNU libc libraries, used to handle file system entry when its name was longer than NAME_MAX characters constant, defined by Linux kernel (readdir_r() used to put content of the directory read into application's allocated buffer, possibly [NTFS or CIFS filesystems for example] leading to application's buffer overwrite]. A remote-attacker could provide a specially-crafted NTFS or CIFS image that, when processed in an application using the readdir_r() functionality, would lead to that application crash or, potentially, arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running the application. This issue was found by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security Team. Upstream bug report: [1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14699 Latest patch proposal: [2] http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-05/msg00445.html References: [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=995839 Thank you && Regards, Jan.