GSD-2015-8984

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:20
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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.
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CVE-2015-8984
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