CVE-2015-8982 in C Libraryinfo

Summary

Integer overflow in the strxfrm function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.21 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.

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Reservation

02/14/2017

Disclosure

03/15/2017

Status

Confirmed

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