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.
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Information
Published : 2015-04-08 03:59
Updated : 2016-11-28 11:18
NVD link : CVE-2015-1473
Mitre link : CVE-2015-1473
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CWE
CWE-119
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Products Affected
canonical
- ubuntu_linux
gnu
- glibc