CVE-2015-8836

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-02-06
CWE:
CWE-190->CWE-122
Bugzilla:
863102: CVE-2015-8836 fuseiso: Integer overflow, leading to heap buffer overflow when reading certain ISO ZF blocks

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Integer overflow in the isofs_real_read_zf function in isofs.c in FuseISO 20070708 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large ZF block size in an ISO file, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Find out more about CVE-2015-8836 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 fuseiso Will not fix

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security Team.

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