Out-of-bounds Read Affecting glibc package, versions [,2.22)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.43% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLIBC-2319024
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed20 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Mar 2017

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

How to fix?

Upgrade glibc to version 2.22 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. 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.

CVSS Base Scores

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