Upstream information

CVE-2015-5957 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 10
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 940924 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

    openSUSE-SU-2015:1579-1

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • remind >= 3.1.15-1.7
Patchnames:
openSUSE Tumbleweed GA remind-3.1.15-1.7


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Aug 7 03:38:36 2015
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 7 13:09:25 2023