Candidate: CVE-2015-8985
PublicDate: 2017-03-20 16:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8985
Description:
 The pop_fail_stack function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6)
 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion
 failure and application crash) via vectors related to extended regular
 expression processing.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 sbeattie> PoC testcase in upstream bug report
 sbeattie> fix commit possibly introduced regression addressed by
   bc680b336971305cb39896b30d72dc7101b62242
Bugs:
 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21163
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=779392
Priority: negligible
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [5.9 MEDIUM]
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [5.9 MEDIUM]

Patches_eglibc:
upstream_eglibc: needed
precise_eglibc: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_eglibc: ignored (end of ESM support, was needs-triage)
trusty_eglibc: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_eglibc: needs-triage
vivid/ubuntu-core_eglibc: DNE
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_eglibc: DNE
xenial_eglibc: DNE
yakkety_eglibc: DNE
zesty_eglibc: DNE
artful_eglibc: DNE
bionic_eglibc: DNE
cosmic_eglibc: DNE
disco_eglibc: DNE
eoan_eglibc: DNE
focal_eglibc: DNE
groovy_eglibc: DNE
hirsute_eglibc: DNE
impish_eglibc: DNE
jammy_eglibc: DNE
devel_eglibc: DNE

Patches_glibc:
 upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=eb04c21373e2a2885f3d52ff192b0499afe3c672
upstream_glibc: released (2.28)
precise_glibc: DNE
precise/esm_glibc: DNE
trusty_glibc: DNE
trusty/esm_glibc: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_glibc: ignored (reached end-of-life)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_glibc: ignored (reached end-of-life)
xenial_glibc: ignored (end of standard support, was needed)
esm-infra/xenial_glibc: needed
yakkety_glibc: ignored (reached end-of-life)
zesty_glibc: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_glibc: ignored (reached end-of-life)
bionic_glibc: needed
cosmic_glibc: not-affected (2.28-0ubuntu1)
disco_glibc: not-affected (2.28-0ubuntu1)
eoan_glibc: not-affected (2.28-0ubuntu1)
focal_glibc: not-affected (2.28-0ubuntu1)
groovy_glibc: not-affected (2.28-0ubuntu1)
hirsute_glibc: not-affected (2.28-0ubuntu1)
impish_glibc: not-affected (2.28-0ubuntu1)
jammy_glibc: not-affected (2.28-0ubuntu1)
devel_glibc: not-affected (2.28-0ubuntu1)