CVE-2015-8984

mediumpriority · track · 25EPSS 0.024 · 84 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.42% (84th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

9 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The fnmatch function 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) via a malformed pattern, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.9

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v3.05.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.2 · impact 3.6

v3.05.4mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-125USprimary

affected products (9)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Amazon Linux 2all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:amazon:linux_2:-
F5 BIG-IPall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:f5:big-ip:-
Gentoo Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:gentoo:linux:-
Open Source GNU libcall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:gnu:glibc:2.17
Oracle Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:oracle:linux:-
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
Ubuntu Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
gnu glibc≤ 2.21nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2022-2008GNU libc: mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2017-02-14csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in GNU libc ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode mit den Rechten des Angegriffenen auszuführen oder einen Denial of Service Angriff durchführen.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-03-20modified 2026-06-17

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references (19)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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