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CVE-2015-8779

2016-04-1900:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
8

9.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.5 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.043 Low

EPSS

Percentile

92.2%

Stack-based buffer overflow in the catopen function in the GNU C Library
(aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows context-dependent attackers to
cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary
code via a long catalog name.

Bugs

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu12.04noarcheglibc< 2.15-0ubuntu10.14UNKNOWN
ubuntu14.04noarcheglibc< 2.19-0ubuntu6.8UNKNOWN
ubuntu15.10noarchglibc< 2.21-0ubuntu4.2UNKNOWN

9.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.5 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.043 Low

EPSS

Percentile

92.2%