CVE-2015-20109

NameCVE-2015-20109
Descriptionend_pattern (called from internal_fnmatch) in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.22 might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), as demonstrated by use of the fnmatch library function with the **(!() pattern. NOTE: this is not the same as CVE-2015-8984; also, some Linux distributions have fixed CVE-2015-8984 but have not fixed this additional fnmatch issue.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
glibc (PTS)buster2.28-10+deb10u1fixed
buster (security)2.28-10+deb10u2fixed
bullseye2.31-13+deb11u8fixed
bullseye (security)2.31-13+deb11u9fixed
bookworm2.36-9+deb12u4fixed
bookworm (security)2.36-9+deb12u6fixed
trixie2.37-18fixed
sid2.37-19fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
glibcsource(unstable)2.22-1

Notes

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18036
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=c2c6d39fab901c97c18fa3a3a3658d9dc3f7df61 (glibc-2.22)

Search for package or bug name: Reporting problems