Security Advisory
CVE-2015-8779
9.8
CRITICAL
Vulnerability Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the catopen function 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 a long catalog name.
Published Date
April 19, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory