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CVE-2015-8776 (GCVE-0-2015-8776)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-04-19 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:29
VLAI
Summary
The strftime function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly obtain sensitive information via an out-of-range time value.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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Date Public
2016-01-19 00:00
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