What is the severity of CVE-2015-4041?

CVE-2015-4041 is classified as a medium severity vulnerability that can lead to a denial of service through a heap-based buffer overflow.

How do I fix CVE-2015-4041?

To remediate CVE-2015-4041, upgrade GNU Coreutils to version 8.24 or later, which contains the necessary security patches.

What software is affected by CVE-2015-4041?

CVE-2015-4041 affects GNU Coreutils versions up to and including 8.23 on 64-bit platforms.

What are the consequences of exploiting CVE-2015-4041?

Exploiting CVE-2015-4041 can result in a denial of service due to application crashes caused by heap-based buffer overflow.

What is the root cause of CVE-2015-4041?

The root cause of CVE-2015-4041 is a size calculation issue in the keycompare_mb function that fails to consider the byte size of multibyte characters.

Vulnerability/
CVE-2015-4041

high

7.8

CWE

787 119

24/1/2020

6/8/2024

CVE-2015-4041: Buffer Overflow

First published: Fri Jan 24 2020(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
GNU coreutils	<=8.23

Remedy

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/15/1

Remedy

https://github.com/pixelb/coreutils/commit/bea5e36cc876ed627bb5e0eca36fdfaa6465e940

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2015-4041?
CVE-2015-4041 is classified as a medium severity vulnerability that can lead to a denial of service through a heap-based buffer overflow.
How do I fix CVE-2015-4041?
To remediate CVE-2015-4041, upgrade GNU Coreutils to version 8.24 or later, which contains the necessary security patches.
What software is affected by CVE-2015-4041?
CVE-2015-4041 affects GNU Coreutils versions up to and including 8.23 on 64-bit platforms.
What are the consequences of exploiting CVE-2015-4041?
Exploiting CVE-2015-4041 can result in a denial of service due to application crashes caused by heap-based buffer overflow.
What is the root cause of CVE-2015-4041?
The root cause of CVE-2015-4041 is a size calculation issue in the keycompare_mb function that fails to consider the byte size of multibyte characters.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2015-4041?
CVE-2015-4041 is classified as a medium severity vulnerability that can lead to a denial of service through a heap-based buffer overflow.
How do I fix CVE-2015-4041?
To remediate CVE-2015-4041, upgrade GNU Coreutils to version 8.24 or later, which contains the necessary security patches.
What software is affected by CVE-2015-4041?
CVE-2015-4041 affects GNU Coreutils versions up to and including 8.23 on 64-bit platforms.
What are the consequences of exploiting CVE-2015-4041?
Exploiting CVE-2015-4041 can result in a denial of service due to application crashes caused by heap-based buffer overflow.
What is the root cause of CVE-2015-4041?
The root cause of CVE-2015-4041 is a size calculation issue in the keycompare_mb function that fails to consider the byte size of multibyte characters.