CVE-2015-4041 (GCVE-0-2015-4041)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-01-24 16:59 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:04
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Summary
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.
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CWE
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2015-05-12 00:00
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