Vulnerability CVE-2015-8779

Vulnerability CVE-2015-8779

Published: 2016-04-19

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

	Topic	Author	Date
Med.	glibc catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations	Maksymilian Arci...	22.01.2016

Type:

CWE-119

(Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10	6.4/10	10/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Remote	Low	No required
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
Partial	Partial	Partial

Affected software
SUSE -> Linux enterprise debuginfo
SUSE -> Linux enterprise desktop
SUSE -> Linux enterprise server
SUSE -> Linux enterprise software development kit
SUSE -> Suse linux enterprise server
Opensuse -> Opensuse
Novell -> Opensuse
GNU -> Glibc
Fedoraproject -> Fedora
Debian -> Debian linux
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux

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://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0680.html

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

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/20/1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82244

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1916

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-11

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17905

https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-02/msg00502.html

Vulnerability CVE-2015-8779

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

Med.

glibc catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations

CWE-119

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

7.5/10

6.4/10

10/10

Remote

Low

No required

Partial

Partial

Partial

Affected software

References: