{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 3 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-5218 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2015-5218 is a low-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Opensuse Opensuse, published on 9 Nov 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2015-5218 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2015-5218 is a low-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Opensuse Opensuse, published on 9 Nov 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-5218 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Opensuse Opensuse. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-5218/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-5218/index.md)","id":"CVE-2015-5218","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-5218/index.md","name":"CVE-2015-5218","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5218","GHSA-8f2v-6436-599m","MGASA-2015-0434","SUSE-RU-2016:1515-1","SUSE-SU-2021:14693-1"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"util-linux colcrt","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Local attackers can cause a denial of service via a crafted file in the colcrt utility due to a buffer 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