cve-2015-8984
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-03-20 16:00
Modified
2024-08-06 08:36
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/26/5Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/9Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72789Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18032Issue Tracking, Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=4a28f4d55a6cc33474c0792fe93b5942d81bf185
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00609.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/26/5Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/9Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72789Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18032Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=4a28f4d55a6cc33474c0792fe93b5942d81bf185
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00609.htmlVendor Advisory
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