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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cve-icon 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

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-04-19T21:59:04.990

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:39:09.770

Link: CVE-2015-8778

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-04-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-8778 - Bugzilla