Security Advisory

CVE-2015-8984

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-03-20 16:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 08:36:31
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.