CVE-2015-5957: opensuse

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2015-5957 is a high (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability in opensuse. EPSS estimates a 2.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

1. 28-09-2015
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Buffer overflow in the DumpSysVar function in var.c in Remind before 3.1.15 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via a long name.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.