CVE-2015-8983

Integer overflow in the IOwstroverflow function in libio/wstrops.c in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.22 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to computing a size in bytes, which...

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CVE-2015-8983

CVE-2015-8983 describes an Integer overflow in glibc's _IO_wstr_overflow (libio/wstrops.c) prior to version 2.22 that can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, potentially causing an application crash or arbitrary code execution under certain conditions. Affected: GNU C Library (glibc) before 2.2...