CVE-2015-4041

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Summary

CVECVE-2015-4041
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-01-24 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-02-01 17:33:00 UTC
DescriptionThe keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 on 64-bit platforms performs a size calculation without considering the number of bytes occupied by multibyte characters, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via long UTF-8 strings.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Coreutils All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
sort: fix buffer overflow with some case conversions · pixelb/coreutils@bea5e36 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch
Bug 928749 – VUL-1: CVE-2015-4041, CVE-2015-4042: coreutils: memory handling error with case insensitive sort using UTF-8 MISC bugzilla.suse.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - coreutils sort heap overflow MISC openwall.com Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
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