CVE-2015-8778
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2015-04-10 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
Integer overflow in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via the size argument to the __hcreate_r function, which triggers out-of-bounds heap-memory access.
See more information about CVE-2015-8778 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score: | 5.1 |
| Vector String: | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | High |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (glibc) | ELSA-2017-0680 | 2017-03-27 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (glibc) | ELSA-2017-1916 | 2017-08-07 |
| Oracle VM version 3.3 (glibc) | OVMSA-2017-0051 | 2017-03-29 |
| Oracle VM version 3.4 (glibc) | OVMSA-2017-0051 | 2017-03-29 |
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