Integer overflow 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 the size argument to the __hcreate_r function, which triggers out-of-bounds heap-memory access.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2016-04-19T21:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T08:29:21.859Z
Reserved: 2016-01-19T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2015-8778
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2016-04-19T21:59:04.990
Modified: 2018-10-30T16:27:37.717
Link: CVE-2015-8778
Redhat