The vulnerability of the library that handles system calls and core functions of glibc allows a attacker to cause a service failure or execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the strxfrm function in the library, which handles system calls and core glibc functions, is due to a numerical overflow. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause service failures or execute arbitrary code using a long string...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8982

Integer overflow in the strxfrm function in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.21 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow...