Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-8778

Title: Gnu Glibc RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-8778.

CWE Category CWE-119
Published Date Apr 19, 2016
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 9.8 CVSS v3.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
4.47%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-8778: Integer overflow in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via the size argument to the __hcreate_r function, which triggers out-of-bounds heap-memory access.

Impacted Vendors

G
gentoo 1
S
suse 1
G
gnu 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184626.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00037.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00038.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00039.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00042.html http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154361/Cisco-Device-Hardcoded-Credentials-GNU-glibc-BusyBox.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0680.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/7 http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3480 http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3481 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/19/11 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/20/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83275 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1916 https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/7 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-11 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18240 https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-02/msg00502.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184626.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00037.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00038.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00039.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00042.html http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154361/Cisco-Device-Hardcoded-Credentials-GNU-glibc-BusyBox.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0680.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/7 http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3480 http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3481 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/19/11 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/20/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83275 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1916 https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/7 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-11 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18240 https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-02/msg00502.html
CVSS v3.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity CRITICAL
9.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-8778 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.