Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting glibc package, versions <2.21-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.31% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-GLIBC-531060
  • published15 Mar 2017
  • disclosed15 Mar 2017

Introduced: 15 Mar 2017

CVE-2015-8982  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 glibc to version 2.21-1 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.

Integer overflow in the strxfrm function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.21 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.

CVSS Base Scores

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