CVE-2015-8984

Description

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.

References

https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00609.html

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=4a28f4d55a6cc33474c0792fe93b5942d81bf185

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18032

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72789

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/9

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/26/5

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3