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    CVE-2015-4041

    The 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.

    Published:Apr 27, 2015
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Jan 24, 2020
    EPSS Score:0.00066
    CVSS Score:7.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Gnu
    Product
    Coreutils

    Exploits

    http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/15/1http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/15/1

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-92 Forced Integer Overflow

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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