Vulnerability Details CVE-2015-4041
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.002
EPSS Ranking 39.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
CVSS v2 Score 4.6
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/15/1
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928749
- https://github.com/pixelb/coreutils/commit/bea5e36cc876ed627bb5e0eca36fdfaa6465e940
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/15/1
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928749
- https://github.com/pixelb/coreutils/commit/bea5e36cc876ed627bb5e0eca36fdfaa6465e940