CVE-2015-5218
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-11-09 16:00
Modified
2024-08-06 06:41
Severity ?
Summary
Buffer overflow in text-utils/colcrt.c in colcrt in util-linux before 2.27 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file, related to the page global variable.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00035.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg11873.htmlExploit
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259322Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/70e3fcf293c1827a2655a86584ab13075124a8a8Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/d883d64d96ab9bef510745d064a351145b9babecIssue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27-ReleaseNotesRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00035.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg11873.htmlExploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259322Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/70e3fcf293c1827a2655a86584ab13075124a8a8Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/d883d64d96ab9bef510745d064a351145b9babecIssue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27-ReleaseNotesRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
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