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-2015-8982 First vendor Publication 2017-03-15
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2023-11-07

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 8.1
Base Score 8.1 Environmental Score 8.1
impact SubScore 5.9 Temporal Score 8.1
Exploitabality Sub Score 2.2
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity High
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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8982

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

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

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 116

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-03-24 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3239-3.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-22 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3239-2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-21 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3239-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db560...
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61...
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=0f9e585480ed
Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72602
CONFIRM https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16009
MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/13/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/9

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