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CVE-2015-4042

9.8 criticalEPSS 2.3%

Critical (9.8) in gnu coreutils. EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via long strings.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 83% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-190
Published
Modified
Record from
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Affected

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