{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2015-04-27T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "coreutils: heap buffer overflow in sort(1) keycompare_mb()",
    "id" : "1223813",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1223813"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "3.7",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P",
    "status" : "draft"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-122",
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "coreutils",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "coreutils",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "coreutils",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-4041\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-4041" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2015-4041",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "This flaw is triggered by using sort on specially crafted malicious data file. When using sort with trusted inputs, this flaw cannot be triggered.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}