CVE-2015-6674 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-6674?

CVE-2015-6674 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 13 Apr 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Buffer underflow vulnerability in the Debian inspircd package before 2.0.5-1+deb7u1 for wheezy and before 2.0.16-1 for jessie and sid. NOTE: This issue exists as an additional issue from an incomplete fix of CVE-2012-1836.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-6674?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Inspircd Inspircd.

How do I fix CVE-2015-6674?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2015-6674 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-6674 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-6674, GHSA-4466-cv44-w3q7, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-6674.