CVE-2015-8776

NameCVE-2015-8776
DescriptionThe strftime function 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 obtain sensitive information via an out-of-range time value.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-411-1, DSA-3480-1, DSA-3481-1
Debian Bugs812445

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
glibc (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)2.19-18+deb8u14fixed
stretch (security)2.24-11+deb9u1fixed
stretch (lts), stretch2.24-11+deb9u7fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)2.28-10+deb10u4fixed
bullseye2.31-13+deb11u11fixed
bullseye (security)2.31-13+deb11u10fixed
bookworm2.36-9+deb12u8fixed
bookworm (security)2.36-9+deb12u7fixed
sid, trixie2.40-3fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
eglibcsourcesqueeze2.11.3-4+deb6u9DLA-411-1
eglibcsourcewheezy2.13-38+deb7u10DSA-3480-1
eglibcsource(unstable)(unfixed)
glibcsourcejessie2.19-18+deb8u3DSA-3481-1
glibcsource(unstable)2.21-7812445

Notes

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18985
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=d36c75fc0d44deec29635dd239b0fbd206ca49b7

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