VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2015-8776

CVSS score9.1 CRITICAL
EPSS probability4.80%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2016-04-19
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Description

The strftime function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly obtain sensitive information via an out-of-range time value.

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