CVE-2015-5218

Buffer overflow in text-utils/colcrt.c in colcrt in util-linux before 2.27 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file, related to the page global variable.

Score

CVSS 2.0 2.1 Low

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2015-11-09

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Util-linux (Kernel)
• Opensuse (Opensuse)
• Leap (Opensuse Project)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00035.html
• http://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg11873.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259322
• https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/70e3fcf293c1827a2655a86584ab13075124a8a8
• https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/d883d64d96ab9bef510745d064a351145b9babec
• https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27-ReleaseNotes