CVE-2015-8982 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound in Glibc

CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound11 documents8 sources
Severity
8.1HIGHNVD
OSV7.5
EPSS
1.3%
top 20.18%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
GNU GlibcEglibc
Timeline
PublishedMar 15
Latest updateMay 13

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.2 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶Debiangnu/glibc< 2.21-1+3
▶Ubuntugnu/glibc< 2.23-0ubuntu6
▶Ubuntueglibc/eglibc< 2.19-0ubuntu6.10
▶NVDgnu/glibc2.20

Patches

Patch: www.openwall.com ↗Patch: www.openwall.com ↗Patch: sourceware.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

5
GHSA
GHSA-qw97-54gm-4j6w: Integer overflow in the strxfrm function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2↗2022-05-13
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OSV
eglibc, glibc vulnerabilities↗2017-03-21
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OSV
eglibc, glibc regression↗2017-03-21
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OSV
CVE-2015-8982: Integer overflow in the strxfrm function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2↗2017-03-15
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CVEList
CVE-2015-8982: Integer overflow in the strxfrm function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2↗2017-03-15
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
GNU C Library vulnerabilities↗2017-03-21
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Red Hat
glibc: multiple overflows in strxfrm()↗2015-02-13
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Debian
CVE-2015-8982: glibc - Integer overflow in the strxfrm function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc...↗2015
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8982 glibc: multiple overflows in strxfrm()↗2015-02-13
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8982 glibc: multiple overflows in strxfrm() [fedora-all]↗2015-02-13
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