CVE-2015-8982
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Mar 15, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 14, 2017
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.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- [oss-security] 20170214 Re: Pending CVE requests for glibcmailing-list
- 72602vdb-entry
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16009
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=0f9e585480ed
- [oss-security] 20150213 CVE Requests - glibc overflows (strxfrm)mailing-list
- [bookkeeper-issues] 20210628 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8mailing-list
- [bookkeeper-issues] 20210629 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8mailing-list
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