{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2015-04-10T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "glibc: Integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r",
    "id" : "1300303",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300303"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "5.1",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "8.1",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-190",
  "details" : [ "Integer overflow 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 execute arbitrary code via the size argument to the __hcreate_r function, which triggers out-of-bounds heap-memory access.", "An integer overflow vulnerability was found in hcreate() and hcreate_r() functions which could result in an out-of-bounds memory access. This could lead to application crash or, potentially, arbitrary code execution." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2017-03-21T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2017:0680",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "glibc-0:2.12-1.209.el6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2017-08-01T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2017:1916",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "glibc-0:2.17-196.el7"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "compat-glibc",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "glibc",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "compat-glibc",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "compat-glibc",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8778\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8778" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2015-8778",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Do not use any applications which call hcreate or hcreate_r with a large size argument.\nThese functions are used only rarely, and most callers supply a constant argument.  Other applications calculate the size argument in such a way that the error condition cannot be triggered.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}