Out-of-bounds Read Affecting glibc package, versions <2.21-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.55% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-GLIBC-356764
  • published20 Mar 2017
  • disclosed20 Mar 2017

Introduced: 20 Mar 2017

CVE-2015-8984  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable 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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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