CVSS 3.0
8.1 highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2015-8982
High (8.1) in gnu glibc. EPSS 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 89% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-190
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- gnu:glibc
References
- 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
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E