CVE-2015-4041 | BDVDB-2026-129659 Detail

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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.

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History#

1. Version 12020-01-24Record published in the CVE List.
2. Version 22024-08-06Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.