Name | CVE-2015-8984 |
Description | The fnmatch function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.22 might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed pattern, which triggers an out-of-bounds read. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DLA-316-1 |
Debian Bugs | 779587 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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glibc (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2.19-18+deb8u14 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 2.24-11+deb9u1 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 2.24-11+deb9u7 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2.28-10+deb10u4 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.31-13+deb11u11 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 2.31-13+deb11u10 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.36-9+deb12u8 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 2.36-9+deb12u7 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.40-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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eglibc | source | squeeze | 2.11.3-4+deb6u7 | | DLA-316-1 | |
eglibc | source | wheezy | 2.13-38+deb7u9 | | | |
eglibc | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
glibc | source | jessie | 2.19-18+deb8u2 | | | |
glibc | source | (unstable) | 2.21-1 | | | 779587 |
Notes
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18032
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=4a28f4d55a6cc33474c0792fe93b5942d81bf185
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/26/5