UBUNTU-CVE-2015-20109

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-20109

    Published: 25 Jun 2023Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-20109
    Aliases:
    USN-6762-1

    Summary:

    Details: end_pattern (called from internal_fnmatch) 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), as demonstrated by use of the fnmatch library function with the **(!() pattern. NOTE: this is not the same as CVE-2015-8984; also, some Linux distributions have fixed CVE-2015-8984 but have not fixed this additional fnmatch issue.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-20109, https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18036, https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=c2c6d39fab901c97c18fa3a3a3658d9dc3f7df61, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-20109, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6762-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: eglibc

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+esm3?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.19-0ubuntu6.15+esm3

    Affected versions

    2.17-93ubuntu4

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High