CVE-2015-8982
N/A
Published: March 15, 2017 at 07:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:35 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorGlibc
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (7)
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/13/3Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/9VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72602Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3EMailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3Ex_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16009x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=0f9e585480edQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-190
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