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ubuntu-cve-2015-5957

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2015-09-28 20:59

Modified

2025-07-16 04:50

Summary

Details

Buffer overflow in the DumpSysVar function in var.c in Remind before 3.1.15 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via a long name.

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5957	REPORT
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/06	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5957	REPORT

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        "availability": "No subscription required",
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            "binary_version": "03.01.15-1"
          },
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          },
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  "modified": "2025-07-16T04:50:54Z",
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  "withdrawn": "2025-07-18T16:43:16Z"
}

CVE-2015-5957 (GCVE-0-2015-5957)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-09-28 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:06

Summary

Buffer overflow in the DumpSysVar function in var.c in Remind before 3.1.15 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via a long name.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

5 references

URL	Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/07/1	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76099	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/remind-…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/29/2	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-0…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE

Date Public

2015-07-27 00:00

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2015-5957 (GCVE-0-2015-5957)

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