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CVE-2015-8983
HIGH · CVSS 8.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-03-20T16:59:01.453 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:35:37.060

Summary

Integer overflow in the _IO_wstr_overflow function in libio/wstrops.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.22 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to computing a size in bytes, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

gnu — glibc

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