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glibc-2.23: Fix CVE-2016-3075

[No upstream tracking] -- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-3075

resolv/nss_dns/dns-network.c: Stack overflow in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r

The defensive copy is not needed because the name may not alias the
output buffer.

Upstream-Status: Backport
CVE: CVE-2016-3075
Signed-off-by: Andrej Valek <andrej.valek@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Pascal Bach <pascal.bach@siemens.com>

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)
     {