CVE-2015-1473
EPSS 0.45%
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.
How to fix CVE-2015-1473
To remediate CVE-2015-1473, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/glibc—upgrade to 2.19-15 or later
Is CVE-2015-1473 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 2.19-15