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Out-of-Bounds Affecting glibc package, versions <2.19-15

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.35% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-GLIBC-526327
  • published 8 Apr 2015
  • disclosed 8 Apr 2015
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Introduced: 8 Apr 2015

CVE-2015-1472 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-119 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 glibc to version 2.19-15 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc package and not the glibc package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

The ADDW macro in stdio-common/vfscanf.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.21 does not properly consider data-type size during memory allocation, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long line containing wide characters that are improperly handled in a wscanf call.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

Recommended
7.3 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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Red Hat

4 medium