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CVE-2015-8779
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-04-19T21:59:05.990 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:35:13.830

Summary

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.

Affected products

suse — linux_enterprise_debuginfo

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References

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