Security Advisory

CVE-2015-8779

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-04-19 21:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 08:29:22

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

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.

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