CVE-2015-8982
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8982
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2015-8982.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2015-8982
- Downstream
- Related
- Withdrawn
- 2026-01-27T04:15:20.390824Z
- Published
- 2017-03-15T19:59:00Z
- Modified
- 2026-01-27T04:15:20.390824Z
- Severity
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- 8.1 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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Integer overflow in the strxfrm function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.21 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.
- References
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- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/13/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/9
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72602
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16009
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=0f9e585480ed