CVE-2015-5185

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-09-28 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The lookupProviders function in providerMgr.c in sblim-sfcb 1.3.4 and 1.3.18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an empty className in a packet.

Affected products

Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
Standards Based Linux Instrumentation Sblim-Sfcb: 1.3.4, 1.3.18

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172634.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172659.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172667.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00019.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/21/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91212
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172634.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172659.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172667.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00019.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/21/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91212

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