Stack-based Buffer Overflow in catopen Function in glibc Allows for Denial of Service or Arbitrary Code Execution

CVE-2015-8779 · HIGH Severity

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

Stack-based buffer overflow in the catopen function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long catalog name.

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