CVE-2015-4041 (GCVE-0-2015-4041)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-01-24 16:59
Modified
2024-08-06 06:04
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 on 64-bit platforms performs a size calculation without considering the number of bytes occupied by multibyte characters, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via long UTF-8 strings.
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