CVE-2015-8778

CRITICAL

Fedora < 2.22 - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

Integer overflow 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 the size argument to the __hcreate_r function, which triggers out-of-bounds heap-memory access.

References (22)

Core 22
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00037.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184626.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1916
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3481
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00042.html
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18240
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0680.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2
Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/20/1
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-11
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00038.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00039.html
Vendor Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-02/msg00502.html
Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/19/11
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3480
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83275
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/7
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/7

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0447
EPSS Percentile 89.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (15)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 15.10
debian/debian_linux 8.0
fedoraproject/fedora 23
gnu/glibc < 2.22
opensuse/opensuse 13.2
suse/linux_enterprise_debuginfo 11 sp2 (3 CPE variants)
suse/linux_enterprise_desktop 11 sp3 (2 CPE variants)
suse/linux_enterprise_desktop 12 (2 CPE variants)
... and 5 more
Published Apr 19, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026