CVE-2015-5218
Buffer overflow in text-utils/colcrt.c in colcrt in util-linux before 2.27 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file, related to the page global variable.
- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 49% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- kernel:util-linux
- opensuse:opensuse
- opensuse_project:leap
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00035.html
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg11873.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259322
- https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/70e3fcf293c1827a2655a86584ab13075124a8a8
- https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/d883d64d96ab9bef510745d064a351145b9babec