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CVE-2015-8107 (GCVE-0-2015-8107)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-13 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:13
VLAI
Summary
Format string vulnerability in GNU a2ps 4.14 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/284 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2015-11-16 00:00
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