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CVE-2015-8982 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 1.31% · 79.7th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

1.31%

79.7th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	eglibc	0, 2.17-93ubuntu4, 2.18-0ubuntu1

Timeline

Dec 31, 2015 CVE Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8982 third-party-advisory
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16009 third-party-advisory
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=0f9e585480ed third-party-advisory
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/08/2 third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3239-1 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8982 third-party-advisory

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