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CVE-2015-8778
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-04-19T21:59:04.990 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:35:13.627

Summary

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.

Affected products

fedoraproject — fedora

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References

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