CVE-2015-4041

7.8 highEPSS 0.5%

High (7.8) in gnu coreutils. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 on 64-bit platforms performs a size calculation without considering the number of bytes occupied by multibyte characters, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via long UTF-8 strings.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 44% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-787
Published: 2020-01-24
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

gnu:coreutils

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/15/1
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928749
https://github.com/pixelb/coreutils/commit/bea5e36cc876ed627bb5e0eca36fdfaa6465e940
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/15/1
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928749

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