CVE-2015-8983
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8983
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2015-8983.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2015-8983
- Downstream
- Related
- Withdrawn
- 2026-01-27T04:15:20.566083Z
- Published
- 2017-03-20T16:59:01Z
- Modified
- 2026-01-27T04:15:20.566083Z
- 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 IOwstr_overflow function in libio/wstrops.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.22 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to computing a size in bytes, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
- References
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- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/9
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72740
- https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00609.html
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17269
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=bdf1ff052a8e23d637f2c838fa5642d78fcedc33