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ubuntu-cve-2015-9268

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2018-10-01 08:29

Modified

2025-09-08 16:43

Summary

Details

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS) before 2.49 has unsafe implicit linking against Version.dll. In other words, there is no protection mechanism in which a wrapper function resolves the dependency at an appropriate time during runtime.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.8 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-9268	REPORT
	https://sourceforge.net/p/nsis/bugs/1125/	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-9268	REPORT

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          },
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  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2015-9268",
  "modified": "2025-09-08T16:43:33Z",
  "published": "2018-10-01T08:29:00Z",
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    },
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  ]
}

CVE-2015-9268 (GCVE-0-2015-9268)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-01 08:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:43

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://sourceforge.net/p/nsis/bugs/1125/	x_refsource_MISC
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN68418039/index.html	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVN

Date Public

2018-10-01 00:00

Show details on NVD website

JSON

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

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Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
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Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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ubuntu-cve-2015-9268

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2015-9268 (GCVE-0-2015-9268)

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