Out-of-Bounds Affecting util-linux package, versions [,2.22.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-UTILLINUX-2334954
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Nov 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Nov 2015

CVE-2015-5218  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade util-linux to version 2.22.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Buffer overflow in text-utils/colcrt.c in colcrt in util-linux before 2.27 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file, related to the page global variable.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1