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CVE-2015-4042 (GCVE-0-2015-4042)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-01-24 16:59 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:04
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Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-05-12 00:00
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