CVE-2015-8984
glibc: potential denial of service in internal_fnmatch()
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Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
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Published · February 26, 2015
Updated · May 13, 2026
Description
A flaw was found in the way glibc's fnmatch() function processed certain malformed patterns. An attacker able to make an application call this function could use this flaw to crash that application.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 1.2AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CWE not specified