CVE-2015-5218 Information

Description

Buffer overflow in text-utils/colcrt.c in colcrt in util-linux before 2.27 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file related to the page global variable.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00035.html http://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg11873.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259322 https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/70e3fcf293c1827a2655a86584ab13075124a8a8 https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/d883d64d96ab9bef510745d064a351145b9babec https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27-ReleaseNotes