Vulnerabilities > GNU > Coreutils > 8.23

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2020-01-24 CVE-2015-4042 Integer Overflow or Wraparound vulnerability in GNU Coreutils
Integer overflow in the keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via long strings.
network
low complexity
gnu CWE-190
7.5
2020-01-24 CVE-2015-4041 Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in GNU Coreutils 8.23
The keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 on 64-bit platforms performs a size calculation without considering the number of bytes occupied by multibyte characters, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via long UTF-8 strings.
local
low complexity
gnu CWE-787
4.6
2018-01-04 CVE-2017-18018 Race Condition vulnerability in GNU Coreutils
In GNU Coreutils through 8.29, chown-core.c in chown and chgrp does not prevent replacement of a plain file with a symlink during use of the POSIX "-R -L" options, which allows local users to modify the ownership of arbitrary files by leveraging a race condition.
local
gnu CWE-362
1.9