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CVE-2015-7510 | Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence

Vulnerability IntelligenceCVE-2015-7510

CVE-2015-7510

CRITICAL9.8

Stack-based buffer overflow in the getpwnam and getgrnam functions of the NSS module nss-mymachines in systemd

Published Sep 25, 2017

Modified 1 years ago

Details

Stack-based buffer overflow in the getpwnam and getgrnam functions of the NSS module nss-mymachines in systemd.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284642

https://github.com/keszybz/systemd/commit/cb31827d62066a04b02111df3052949fda4b6888

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2002

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7510

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.0

9.8

Exploitability

Attack Vector

NetworkAV:N

Attack Complexity

LowAC:L

Privileges Required

NonePR:N

User Interaction

NoneUI:N

Scope

Scope

UnchangedS:U

Impact

Confidentiality

HighC:H

Integrity

HighI:H

Availability

HighA:H

9.8/CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedSep 25, 2017

ModifiedAug 6, 2024