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diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/glibc-CVE-2016-3075.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/glibc-CVE-2016-3075.patch
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@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+From 146b58d11fddbef15b888906e3be4f33900c416f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
+Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:57:56 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] CVE-2016-3075: Stack overflow in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r [BZ
+ #19879]
+
+The defensive copy is not needed because the name may not alias the
+output buffer.
+
+(cherry picked from commit 317b199b4aff8cfa27f2302ab404d2bb5032b9a4)
+(cherry picked from commit 883dceebc8f11921a9890211a4e202e5be17562f)
+---
+ ChangeLog | 7 +++++++
+ NEWS | 10 ++++++++--
+ resolv/nss_dns/dns-network.c | 5 +----
+ 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/resolv/nss_dns/dns-network.c b/resolv/nss_dns/dns-network.c
+index 2eb2f67..8f301a7 100644
+--- a/resolv/nss_dns/dns-network.c
++++ b/resolv/nss_dns/dns-network.c
+@@ -118,17 +118,14 @@ _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r (const char *name, struct netent *result,
+ } net_buffer;
+ querybuf *orig_net_buffer;
+ int anslen;
+- char *qbuf;
+ enum nss_status status;
+
+ if (__res_maybe_init (&_res, 0) == -1)
+ return NSS_STATUS_UNAVAIL;
+
+- qbuf = strdupa (name);
+-
+ net_buffer.buf = orig_net_buffer = (querybuf *) alloca (1024);
+
+- anslen = __libc_res_nsearch (&_res, qbuf, C_IN, T_PTR, net_buffer.buf->buf,
++ anslen = __libc_res_nsearch (&_res, name, C_IN, T_PTR, net_buffer.buf->buf,
+ 1024, &net_buffer.ptr, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+ if (anslen < 0)
+ {
+--
+2.9.3
+