PT-2020-7842 · Gnu+2 · Gnu Coreutils+2

Forgotten User Vlqif8Xtne · Published 2015-07-05 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-4041

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: GNU Coreutils versions through 8.23

Description: The issue arises from a size calculation error in the keycompare mb function, specifically when handling multibyte characters in UTF-8 strings on 64-bit platforms. This error can lead to a denial of service, resulting in a heap-based buffer overflow and application crash. It may also have other unspecified impacts when processing long UTF-8 strings.

Recommendations: For GNU Coreutils versions through 8.23, update to a version that addresses this issue to prevent potential denial of service or other unspecified impacts.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1847

CVE-2015-4041

MGASA-2015-0259

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10390-1

SUSE-SU-2015:1637-1

SUSE-SU-2015_1637-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Gnu Coreutils

Suse

References · 23

• 🔥 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/15/1 · Exploit
• https://github.com/pixelb/coreutils/commit/bea5e36cc876ed627bb5e0eca36fdfaa6465e940 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-4041 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0259.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2015:1637-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10390-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0259 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4042 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4041 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/901905 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928749 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/928749 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0222 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0221 · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16120 · Note