CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8982
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-03-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190
Description
Integer overflow in the strxfrm function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.21 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.
Affected configurations
• gnu glibc (<= 2.20)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/13/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/9 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72602 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16009 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=0f9e585480ed sourceware.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/13/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/9 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72602 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16009 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=0f9e585480ed sourceware.org