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CVE-2015-8779
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 6.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2016-04-19 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-119
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the catopen function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long catalog name.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.10
- Debian Linux: 8.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 23
- GNU C Library (glibc): through 2.22
- Opensuse: 13.2
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo: 11-sp2, 11-sp3, 11-sp4
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 11-sp3, 11-sp4, 12, 12-sp1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 11-sp2, 11-sp3, 11-sp4, 12-sp1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 11-sp3, 11-sp4, 12, 12-sp1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise: 12
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184626.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00037.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00038.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00039.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00042.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154361/Cisco-Device-Hardcoded-Credentials-GNU-glibc-BusyBox.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0680.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/7
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3480
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3481
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/19/11
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