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Medium severity5.9NVD Advisory· Published Mar 20, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2015-8985

CVE-2015-8985

Description

The pop_fail_stack function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application crash) via vectors related to extended regular expression processing.

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Affected products

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Patches

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