Vulnerability CVE-2015-8984
Published: 2017-03-20

Description:
The fnmatch function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.22 might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed pattern, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
GNU -> Glibc 

 References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/26/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/9
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72789
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18032
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=4a28f4d55a6cc33474c0792fe93b5942d81bf185
https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00609.html
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