CVE-2015-8778

CWE-119 — Buffer OverflowCWE-190 — Integer Overflow9 documents8 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICAL
EPSS
9.8%
top 7.03%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
10
GNU GlibcCanonical Ubuntu LinuxDebian Debian Linux+7 more
Timeline
PublishedApr 19
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Integer overflow 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 execute arbitrary code via the size argument to the __hcreate_r function, which triggers out-of-bounds heap-memory access.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages8 packages

▶Debianglibc< 2.21-8+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-4r54-pcmf-cg7r: Integer overflow in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2015-8778: Integer overflow in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2↗2016-04-19
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OSV
CVE-2015-8778: Integer overflow 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: Integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r↗2015-04-10
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Debian
CVE-2015-8778: glibc - Integer overflow in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows co...↗2015
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8778 glibc: Integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r↗2016-01-20
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8778 glibc: Integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r [fedora-all]↗2016-01-20
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CVE-2015-8778 (CRITICAL CVSS 9.8) | Integer overflow in the GNU C Libra | cvebase.io