CVE-2015-8984
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Mar 20, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 14, 2017
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.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20170214 Re: Pending CVE requests for glibcmailing-list
- 72789vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20150226 CVE request: glibc: potential application crash due to overread in fnmatchmailing-list
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=4a28f4d55a6cc33474c0792fe93b5942d81bf185
- [libc-alpha] 20150814 The GNU C Library version 2.22 is now availablemailing-list
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18032
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