CVE - CVE-2015-1473

CVE-ID
CVE-2015-1473	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
The ADDW macro in stdio-common/vfscanf.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.21 does not properly consider data-type size during a risk-management decision for use of the alloca function, which might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation) or overwrite memory locations beyond the stack boundary via a long line containing wide characters that are improperly handled in a wscanf call.
References
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BID:72499 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72499 CONFIRM:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html CONFIRM:https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=5bd80bfe9ca0d955bfbbc002781bc7b01b6bcb06 MLIST:[oss-security] 20150203 Re: CVE request: heap buffer overflow in glibc swscanf URL:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/04/1 UBUNTU:USN-2519-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2519-1
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20150203	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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Assigned (20150203)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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