DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1473

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1473 PUBLISHED CVSS 8.699999809265137 HIGH

Record from OSV · Published April 8, 2015

The ADDW macro in stdio-common/vfscanf.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.21 does not properly consider data-type size during a risk-management decision for use of the alloca function, which might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation) or overwrite memory locations beyond the stack boundary via a long line containing wide characters that are improperly handled in a wscanf call.

Fixed versions

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Package	Ecosystem	Fixed in
glibc	Debian:13	2.19-15
glibc	Debian:14	2.19-15
glibc	Debian:12	2.19-15

Risk scores

CVSS 4.0

8.699999809265137

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:13	glibc	0
Debian:14	glibc	0
Debian:12	glibc	0

Timeline

Apr 8, 2015 CVE Published
Sep 9, 2026 CVE Updated

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References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1473 advisory

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