CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-5218
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-11-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Buffer overflow in text-utils/colcrt.c in colcrt in util-linux before 2.27 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file, related to the page global variable.
Affected configurations
• kernel util-linux (<= 2.22)
• opensuse opensuse 13.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
• opensuse project leap 42.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00035.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg11873.html Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259322 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/70e3fcf293c1827a2655a86584ab13075124a8a8 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/d883d64d96ab9bef510745d064a351145b9babec Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27-ReleaseNotes Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00035.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg11873.html Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259322 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/70e3fcf293c1827a2655a86584ab13075124a8a8 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/d883d64d96ab9bef510745d064a351145b9babec Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27-ReleaseNotes Release Notes, Vendor Advisory