CVE-2015-8985

glibc: potential denial of service in pop_fail_stack()

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

1.9

CVSS 2.0

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Published · February 28, 2015

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

The pop_fail_stack function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application crash) via vectors related to extended regular expression processing.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 1.9
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE not specified