CVE-2015-8983
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Mar 20, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 14, 2017
Description
Integer overflow in the _IO_wstr_overflow function in libio/wstrops.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.22 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to computing a size in bytes, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Scores
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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
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17269
- [libc-alpha] 20150814 The GNU C Library version 2.22 is now availablemailing-list
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=bdf1ff052a8e23d637f2c838fa5642d78fcedc33
- 72740vdb-entry
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