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CVE-2015-8982

CVE-2015-8982

Published Date 2017-03-15
Product centos
Severity High (8.1)
Component glibc
Affected Versions CentOS 7
Patched Versions glibc-2.17-326_ol011.el7_9.3

CVE Details

OL CVE Issue Summary

Integer overflow in the strxfrm function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.21 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.