CVE-2015-8985

MEDIUM

GNU Glibc < 2.28 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule

Description

The pop_fail_stack function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application crash) via vectors related to extended regular expression processing.

References (4)

Scores

CVSS v3 5.9
EPSS 0.0020
EPSS Percentile 41.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-19
Status published

Affected Products (2)

gnu/glibc < 2.28
n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Mar 20, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026