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CVE-2015-8984

The fnmatch function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.22 might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed pattern, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Published

2017-03-20T16:59:01.500

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 5.9 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-125

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	gnu	glibc	≤ 2.21	Yes

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/26/5 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/9 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72789 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18032 Issue Tracking, Patch ([email protected])
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=4a28f4d55a6cc33474c0792fe93b5942d81bf185 ([email protected])
https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00609.html Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/26/5 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/9 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72789 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18032 Issue Tracking, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=4a28f4d55a6cc33474c0792fe93b5942d81bf185 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00609.html Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)