Mend.io Vulnerability Database

What is a CVE vulnerability ID? icon What is a WS vulnerability ID? icon What is an MSC vulnerability ID? icon
New vulnerability? Tell us about it!
icon

We found results for “”

CVE-2015-8984

Good to know:

icon

Date: March 20, 2017

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (10)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8984
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=4a28f4d55a6cc33474c0792fe93b5942d81bf185
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/26/5
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18032
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72789
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8984
https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00609.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8984
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/9
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-8984

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Read

CWE-125

Top Fix

icon

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version 2.22

Learn More

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
Additional information:

Do you need more information?

Contact Us