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CVE-2015-1473

Public on 2015-04-08
Modified on 2015-12-13
Description

A stack overflow flaw was found in glibc's swscanf() function. An attacker able to make an application call the swscanf() function could use this flaw to crash that application or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
2.6
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 glibc 2015-12-14 10:00 ALAS-2015-617

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 2.6 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P