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CVE-2015-8982

Published: Mar 15, 2017

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

[oss-security] 20170214 Re: Pending CVE requests for glibc

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16009

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https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=0f9e585480ed

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[oss-security] 20150213 CVE Requests - glibc overflows (strxfrm)

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[bookkeeper-issues] 20210628 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8

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[bookkeeper-issues] 20210629 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8

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