CVE-2015-8984 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/26/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/9 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72789 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18032 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=4a28f4d55a6cc33474c0792fe93b5942d81bf185 https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00609.html

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.9