Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting glibc package, versions <2.19-18+deb8u2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.54% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-GLIBC-356523
  • published20 Mar 2017
  • disclosed20 Mar 2017

Introduced: 20 Mar 2017

CVE-2015-8983  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 glibc to version 2.19-18+deb8u2 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:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Integer overflow in the _IO_wstr_overflow function in libio/wstrops.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.22 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to computing a size in bytes, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

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