CVE-2015-8979

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

3.90% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 89.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

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

Red Hat severity

No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

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

2017-02-15 15:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 08:36Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-12-17

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

Data version

5.1

Document digest

d8cce7b945c0b3e4715da6e8853b0e6a2243b263922d8a8b2191ff5b37c33f1f

• packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140191/DCMTK-storescp-DICOM-storage-C-STORE-SCP-Remote-Stack-Buffer-Overflow.htmlx_refsource_MISC
• www.securityfocus.com94951http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94951vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• www.debian.orgDSA-3749http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3749vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161217 Re: CVE request - DCMTK remote stack buffer overflowhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/18/2mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.zeroscience.mkhttp://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2016-5384.phpx_refsource_MISC
• bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1405919x_refsource_CONFIRM