CVE-2015-8984 (GCVE-0-2015-8984)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-03-20 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:36
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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.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2319 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2015-02-26 00:00
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