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CVE-2015-8776

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-8776 is a critical vulnerability in the strftime function of the GNU C Library (glibc) affecting various Linux distributions like Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE. An attacker can exploit this remotely with low complexity by providing an out-of-range time value, potentially leading to a denial of service (application crash) or sensitive information disclosure. Despite its high CVSS score of 9.1, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:suse:linux_enterprise_debuginfo:11:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:suse:linux_enterprise_debuginfo:11:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:suse:linux_enterprise_debuginfo:11:sp4:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:11:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.1CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.61%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0461 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: glibc-0:2.12-1.209.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: glibc-0:2.17-196.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: compat-glibc
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: glibc
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: compat-glibc
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: compat-glibc

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-8776Moderate

glibc: Segmentation fault caused by passing out-of-range data to strftime()

Sep 20, 2015

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184626.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00037.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00038.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00039.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00042.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0680.html
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:1916
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201602-02
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201702-11
sourceware.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
sourceware.org / ml/libc-alpha/2016-02/msg00502.html
Vendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3480
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3481
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/01/19/11
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/01/20/1
Issue Tracking
securityfocus.com / bid/83277
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2985-1
Third Party Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2985-2
Third Party Advisory