Vulnerabilities > GNU > Coreutils > High

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
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
7.8