Integer Overflow or Wraparound The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package coreutils  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-COREUTILS-626400
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed24 Jan 2020

Introduced: 24 Jan 2020

CVE-2015-4042  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream coreutils package and not the coreutils package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Integer overflow in the keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via long strings.