CVE-2015-1473
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Apr 8, 2015
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 3, 2015
Description
The ADDW macro in stdio-common/vfscanf.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.21 does not properly consider data-type size during a risk-management decision for use of the alloca function, which might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation) or overwrite memory locations beyond the stack boundary via a long line containing wide characters that are improperly handled in a wscanf call.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
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References
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- USN-2519-1vendor-advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5bd80bfe9ca0d955bfbbc002781bc7b01b6bcb06
- 72499vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20150203 Re: CVE request: heap buffer overflow in glibc swscanfmailing-list
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