CVE-2015-8972

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

3.76% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 88.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2017-01-23 21:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 08:36Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-11-14

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
• CWE-121Stack-based Buffer OverflowVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

8a6363cfd9d03ba8742844d315f50ae4eddf0c7b36ffa2a278bacc85e30875f8

• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161113 CVE needed? / gnuchess 6.2.4 fixed user input buffer overflowhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/13/2mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161114 Re: CVE needed? / gnuchess 6.2.4 fixed user input buffer overflowhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/14/12mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161114 Re: Re: CVE needed? / gnuchess 6.2.4 fixed user input buffer overflowhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/14/11mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• svn.savannah.gnu.orghttp://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/chess?revision=134&view=revisionx_refsource_CONFIRM
• lists.gnu.org[bug-gnu-chess] 20151029 Buffer overflow issue in gnuchesshttp://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-chess/2015-10/msg00002.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST