CVE-2015-2675

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-08-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The OAuth implementation in librest before 0.7.93 incorrectly truncates the pointer returned by the rest_proxy_call_get_url function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via running the EnsureCredentials method from the org.gnome.OnlineAccounts.Account interface on an object representing a Flickr account.

Affected products

GNOME librest: 0.7.92

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2237.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/23/8
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742644
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1183982
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199049
https://git.gnome.org/browse/librest/commit/?id=b50ace7738ea03817acdad87fb2b338a86018329
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2237.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/23/8
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742644
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1183982
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199049
https://git.gnome.org/browse/librest/commit/?id=b50ace7738ea03817acdad87fb2b338a86018329

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