CVE-2015-8985 Denial of service in n/a
Attackers can cause application crashes via extended regular expression processing in the GNU C Library, affecting system stability.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2015-8985?
CVE-2015-8985 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Gnu Glibc, published on 20 Mar 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-19
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-8985?
It affects 1 product.
Linux distribution packages (7)
glibc SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS | All versions | 2.22-114.22.1 |
glibc SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 | All versions | 2.22-114.22.1 |
glibc SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 | All versions | 2.22-114.22.1 |
glibc SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 | All versions | 2.22-114.22.1 |
glibc SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 | All versions | 2.22-114.22.1 |
glibc SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 9 | All versions | 2.22-114.22.1 |
glibc SUSE:OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 | All versions | 2.22-114.22.1 |
Products include Gnu Glibc.
How do I fix CVE-2015-8985?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2015-8985 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-8985 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Gnu Glibc
Sources
Also known as AZL-44559, AZL-45306, DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8985, GHSA-chf9-h36m-6388, SUSE-SU-2022:3942-1, SUSE-SU-2022:3942-2 and 1 more.