CVE-2015-4041
HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: January 24, 2020 at 04:59 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:26 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorCoreutils
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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (3)
x_refsource_MISCExploitMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/15/1x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928749x_refsource_MISCPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/pixelb/coreutils/commit/bea5e36cc876ed627bb5e0eca36fdfaa6465e940CVSS
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-787
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