CVE-2015-4041

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
Publication date:
24/01/2020
Last modified:
01/02/2020

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.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:coreutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:* 8.23 (including)