CVE-2015-8778 (GCVE-0-2015-8778)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-04-19 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:29
VLAI
Summary
Integer overflow in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via the size argument to the __hcreate_r function, which triggers out-of-bounds heap-memory access.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154361/Cisco… x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2016-01-19 00:00
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