CVE-2015-8778

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8778
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2015-8778.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2015-8778
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Published
2016-04-19T21:59:04Z
Modified
2025-08-09T19:01:27Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
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Details

Integer overflow in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via the size argument to the _hcreater function, which triggers out-of-bounds heap-memory access.

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Affected packages