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CVE-2015-8779

glibc: Unbounded stack allocation in catopen function

Published Modified CWE 119
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat5.1AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, Photon OS. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Amazon (medium), Oracle (medium), Ubuntu (low).

Description

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
Photon OS 1.0glibc2.22-8.ph1
amazon linux 1glibc, glibc-common, glibc-debuginfo and 6 more2.17-196.172.amzn1
debian 11glibc2.21-7
debian 12glibc2.21-7
debian 13glibc2.21-7
debian 14glibc2.21-7
debian 7eglibc2.13-38+deb7u10
debian 8glibc2.19-18+deb8u3
echoglibc2.21-7
Oracle Linux 6glibc, glibc-common, glibc-devel and 4 more2.12-1.209.0.1.el6
Oracle Linux 7glibc, glibc-common, glibc-devel and 4 more2.17-196.el7
Red Hatcompat-glibc, compat-glibc-headersno fix listed
Show all 42 entries from 20 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
Photon OS 1.0glibc2.22-8.ph1
amazon linux 1glibc2.17-196.172.amzn1
amazon linux 1glibc-common2.17-196.172.amzn1
amazon linux 1glibc-debuginfo2.17-196.172.amzn1
amazon linux 1glibc-debuginfo-common2.17-196.172.amzn1
amazon linux 1glibc-devel2.17-196.172.amzn1
amazon linux 1glibc-headers2.17-196.172.amzn1
amazon linux 1glibc-static2.17-196.172.amzn1
amazon linux 1glibc-utils2.17-196.172.amzn1
amazon linux 1nscd2.17-196.172.amzn1
debian 11glibc2.21-7
debian 12glibc2.21-7
debian 13glibc2.21-7
debian 14glibc2.21-7
debian 7eglibc2.13-38+deb7u10
debian 8glibc2.19-18+deb8u3
echoglibc2.21-7
Oracle Linux 6glibc2.12-1.209.0.1.el6
Oracle Linux 6glibc-common2.12-1.209.0.1.el6
Oracle Linux 6glibc-devel2.12-1.209.0.1.el6
Oracle Linux 6glibc-headers2.12-1.209.0.1.el6
Oracle Linux 6glibc-static2.12-1.209.0.1.el6
Oracle Linux 6glibc-utils2.12-1.209.0.1.el6
Oracle Linux 6nscd2.12-1.209.0.1.el6
Oracle Linux 7glibc2.17-196.el7
Oracle Linux 7glibc-common2.17-196.el7
Oracle Linux 7glibc-devel2.17-196.el7
Oracle Linux 7glibc-headers2.17-196.el7
Oracle Linux 7glibc-static2.17-196.el7
Oracle Linux 7glibc-utils2.17-196.el7
Oracle Linux 7nscd2.17-196.el7
Red Hatcompat-glibcno fix listed
Red Hatcompat-glibc-headersno fix listed
root.io debian 11rootio-glibc2.21-7
root.io debian 12rootio-glibc2.21-7
root.io debian 13rootio-glibc2.21-7
seal Red Hat 6glibc2.12-1.212.el6_10.3+sp999
seal Red Hat 6seal-glibc2.12-1.212.el6_10.3+sp999
ubuntu 12.04eglibc2.15-0ubuntu10.14
ubuntu 14.04eglibc2.19-0ubuntu6.8
ubuntu 14.04-ESMeglibc2.19-0ubuntu6.8
ubuntu 15.10glibc2.21-0ubuntu4.2

References

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