CVE-2015-8984

medium

Description

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

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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72789

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/9

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/26/5

https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00609.html

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=4a28f4d55a6cc33474c0792fe93b5942d81bf185

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18032

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-03-20

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H