Integer overflow in the keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via long strings.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-01-24T16:59:45

Updated: 2024-08-06T06:04:02.840Z

Reserved: 2015-05-19T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-4042

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-01-24T17:15:12.577

Modified: 2020-02-01T17:33:16.920

Link: CVE-2015-4042

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2015-04-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-4042 - Bugzilla