CVE-2015-1473

medium

Published 2015-04-08 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.4

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

Ubuntu Affected 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
14.10	Affected	—
14.04	Affected	—
12.04	Affected	—
10.04	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.19-15`
sid	Fixed	`2.19-15`
forky	Fixed	`2.19-15`
bullseye	Fixed	`2.19-15`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.19-15`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
gnu	glibc	`{"endIncluding":"2.20"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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