CVE-2015-4041

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jan 24, 2020
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: May 19, 2015

Description

The keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 on 64-bit platforms performs a size calculation without considering the number of bytes occupied by multibyte characters, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via long UTF-8 strings.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/15/1
https://github.com/pixelb/coreutils/commit/bea5e36cc876ed627bb5e0eca36fdfaa6465e940
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928749

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