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CVE-2015-4041
published 2020-01-24

CVE-2015-4041: 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…

high7.8CVSS 3.1
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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.

Affected

2 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debiancoreutils——
gnucoreutils<= 8.23—