CVE-2015-4041

Name	CVE-2015-4041
Description	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.
Source	CVE (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 Package	Release	Version	Status
coreutils (PTS)	bullseye	8.32-4	fixed
	bookworm	9.1-1	fixed
	trixie	9.4-3.1	fixed
	sid	9.5-1	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
coreutils	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

Notes

- coreutils <not-affected> (Debian does not apply coreutils-i18n.patch)
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928749
https://github.com/pixelb/coreutils/commit/bea5e36cc876ed627bb5e0eca36fdfaa6465e940
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/coreutils.git/plain/coreutils-i18n.patch