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CVE-2015-8985

Published: Mar 20, 2017 | Modified: Mar 31, 2020
CVSS 3.x
5.9
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8985
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/19.html

The pop_fail_stack function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application crash) via vectors related to extended regular expression processing.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Glibc Gnu * 2.28 (excluding)

References

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