Out-of-bounds Write Affecting coreutils package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.52% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-COREUTILS-2319196
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed24 Jan 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Jan 2020

CVE-2015-4041  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for coreutils.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. The keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 on 64-bit platforms performs a size calculation without considering the number of bytes occupied by multibyte characters, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via long UTF-8 strings.

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