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CVE-2015-1473

glibc: Stack-overflow in glibc swscanf

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

2.6

CVSS 2.0

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Published · February 21, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A stack overflow flaw was found in glibc's swscanf() function. An attacker able to make an application call the swscanf() function could use this flaw to crash that application or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application.

Statement

This issue does not affect the version of glibc package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 2.6
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

CWE-121 · Stack-based Buffer Overflow