CVE-2015-5218

Description

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.

References

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27-ReleaseNotes

https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/d883d64d96ab9bef510745d064a351145b9babec

https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/70e3fcf293c1827a2655a86584ab13075124a8a8

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259322

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00035.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3