CVE-2015-8776 — Glibc vulnerability

CWE-1899 documents8 sources
Severity
9.1CRITICALNVD
EPSS
7.4%
top 8.24%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
10
GNU GlibcCanonical Ubuntu LinuxDebian Linux+7 more
Timeline
PublishedApr 19
Latest updateMay 14

Description

The strftime function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly obtain sensitive information via an out-of-range time value.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.2

Affected Packages8 packages

▶Debiangnu/glibc< 2.21-7+3
▶NVDgnu/glibc2.22

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, Fedora 23, Ubuntu Linux 12.04, 14.04, 15.10

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-mm79-9vr7-wx53: The strftime function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2015-8776: The strftime function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2↗2016-04-19
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CVEList
CVE-2015-8776: The strftime function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2↗2016-04-19
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
GNU C Library vulnerabilities↗2016-05-25
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Red Hat
glibc: Segmentation fault caused by passing out-of-range data to strftime()↗2015-09-20
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Debian
CVE-2015-8776: glibc - The strftime function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allo...↗2015
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8776 glibc: Segmentation fault caused by passing out-of-range data to strftime()↗2016-01-20
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8776 glibc: Segmentation fault caused by passing out-of-range data to strftime() [fedora-all]↗2016-01-20
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CVE-2015-8776 — GNU Glibc vulnerability | cvebase