CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8984
5.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-03-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
The fnmatch function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.22 might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed pattern, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.
Affected configurations
• gnu glibc (<= 2.21)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/26/5 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/72789 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18032 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=4a28f4d55a6cc33474c0792fe93b5942d81bf185 sourceware.org
- https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00609.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/26/5 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/72789 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18032 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=4a28f4d55a6cc33474c0792fe93b5942d81bf185 sourceware.org
- https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00609.html Vendor Advisory