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CVE-2015-8778 Critical

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.

Exploit probability 5.5%
Published April 19, 2016
Required by Not available
Last source change April 16, 2026

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Open Source Vulnerabilities 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.

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