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CVE-2015-4041 Details

Description

The keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 on 64-bit platforms performs a size calculation without considering the number of bytes occupied by multibyte characters, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via long UTF-8 strings.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.8 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/15/1 CVEExploitMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928749 CVEIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/pixelb/coreutils/commit/bea5e36cc876ed627bb5e0eca36fdfaa6465e940 CVEPatch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/15/1 [email protected]ExploitMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928749 [email protected]Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-787Out-of-bounds Write[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
gnu coreutils
<= 8.23

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:gnu:coreutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

4 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-4041
NVD Published Date:
Jan 24, 2020
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2015-4041 Details - Not Deferred