Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2015-4042 First vendor Publication 2020-01-24
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2024-11-21

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 9.8
Base Score 9.8 Environmental Score 9.8
impact SubScore 5.9 Temporal Score 9.8
Exploitabality Sub Score 3.9
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Integer overflow in the keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via long strings.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4042

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 28

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-09-28 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-1637-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-15 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-420.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/15/1
https://github.com/pixelb/coreutils/commit/bea5e36cc876ed627bb5e0eca36fdfaa64...
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2024-11-28 12:47:36
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2021-05-04 12:41:59
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2021-04-22 01:51:06
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2020-05-23 00:45:28
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