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Vulnerability details: VCID-2u2p-f2k7-aaar
Vulnerability ID VCID-2u2p-f2k7-aaar
Aliases CVE-2015-8982
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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.0
Risk 4.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound
System Score Found at
generic_textual Medium http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/08/2
generic_textual Medium http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-8982.html
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rhbs low https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192525
generic_textual Medium https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8982
cvssv3.1 7.4 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
generic_textual HIGH https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
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cvssv2 6.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8982
cvssv3 8.1 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8982
generic_textual Medium https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16009
generic_textual Medium https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=0f9e585480ed
generic_textual Low https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3239-1
Reference id Reference type URL
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/08/2
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-8982.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2015-8982.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-8982
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8982
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16009
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=0f9e585480ed
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=0f9e585480ed
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=0f9e585480ed
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3239-1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/13/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/9
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72602
1192525 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192525
803927 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=803927
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2015-8982 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8982
USN-3239-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3239-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8982
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8982
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.68684
EPSS Score 0.00658
Published At March 28, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
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