CVE-2015-8985 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc) affecting extended regular expression processing. An attacker can remotely trigger an assertion failure and application crash, though the attack complexity is high. While the CVSS score is 5.9 (Medium), indicating a high impact on availability, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.28CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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