CVE-2015-8778

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a

References

Timeline

Published
Apr 19, 2016
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2015-8778: Critical severity, CVSS 9.8 | Vulnix