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CVE-2015-4041

CVE-2015-4041

EPSS 0.5%
The keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 on 64-bit platforms performs a size calculation without considering the number of bytes occupied by multibyte characters, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via long UTF-8 strings.
Affected products
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References
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/15/1https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928749https://github.com/pixelb/coreutils/commit/bea5e36cc876ed627bb5e0eca36fdfaa6465e940