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Vulnerability details: VCID-38up-9y3m-aaaj
Vulnerability ID VCID-38up-9y3m-aaaj
Aliases CVE-2015-8984
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.2
Risk 3.1
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
System Score Found at
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rhbs low https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1197730
generic_textual Medium https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8984
cvssv2 4.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8984
cvssv3 5.9 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8984
generic_textual Medium https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18032
generic_textual Medium https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=4a28f4d55a6cc33474c0792fe93b5942d81bf185
generic_textual Low https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3239-1
generic_textual Medium http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/26/5
Reference id Reference type URL
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-8984.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2015-8984.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-8984
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8984
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18032
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=4a28f4d55a6cc33474c0792fe93b5942d81bf185
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=4a28f4d55a6cc33474c0792fe93b5942d81bf185
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3239-1
https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00609.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/26/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/9
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72789
1197730 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1197730
779587 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=779587
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-2015-8984 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8984
USN-3239-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3239-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8984
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:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8984
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 0.62396
EPSS Score 0.00482
Published At March 28, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
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