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CVE-2015-5218

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-11-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected products

• util-linux: through 2.22
• Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
• Opensuse Project Leap: 42.1

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
• https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27-ReleaseNotes
• 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
• https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27-ReleaseNotes

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