Security Advisory

CVE-2015-8985

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-03-20 16:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 08:36:31
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The pop_fail_stack function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application crash) via vectors related to extended regular expression processing.