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.
Published: 2020-01-24
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-4069 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T06:04:02.694Z

Reserved: 2015-05-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-4041

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-01-24T17:15:12.500

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:30:20.313

Link: CVE-2015-4041

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2015-04-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-4041 - Bugzilla

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