#VU31436 Data Handling in Glibc - CVE-2015-8985

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#VU31436 Data Handling in Glibc - CVE-2015-8985

Published: March 20, 2017 / Updated: July 18, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU31436
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8985
CWE-ID: CWE-19
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Glibc
Software vendor:
GNU

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The pop_fail_stack function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application crash) via vectors related to extended regular expression processing.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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