CVE-2015-4041
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- Description:
- The keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 on 64-bit platforms performs a size calculation without considering the number of bytes occupied by multibyte characters, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via long UTF-8 strings.
- Last updated date:
- 02/01/2020
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 02/01/2020
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