CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8778
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-04-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Integer overflow in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via the size argument to the __hcreate_r function, which triggers out-of-bounds heap-memory access.
Affected configurations
• fedoraproject fedora 23
• debian debian linux 8.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 15.10
• gnu glibc (<= 2.22)
• suse linux enterprise debuginfo 11
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
• suse linux enterprise desktop 11
• suse linux enterprise desktop 12
• suse linux enterprise server 11
• suse linux enterprise server 12
• suse linux enterprise software development kit 11
• suse linux enterprise software development kit 12
• suse suse linux enterprise server 12
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184626.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00037.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00038.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00039.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00042.html Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154361/Cisco-Device-Hardcoded-Credentials-GNU-glibc-BusyBox.html packetstormsecurity.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0680.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/7 seclists.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3480 www.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3481 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/19/11 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/20/1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83275 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1916 access.redhat.com
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/7 seclists.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-11 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18240 Issue Tracking
- https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-02/msg00502.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184626.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00037.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00038.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00039.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00042.html Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154361/Cisco-Device-Hardcoded-Credentials-GNU-glibc-BusyBox.html packetstormsecurity.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0680.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/7 seclists.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3480 www.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3481 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/19/11 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/20/1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83275 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1916 access.redhat.com
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/7 seclists.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-11 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18240 Issue Tracking
- https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-02/msg00502.html Vendor Advisory