CVE-2015-8983

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

3.87% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 89.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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

2017-03-20 16:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 08:36Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-02-14

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-190Integer Overflow or WraparoundBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

a7a353f674d6bc292c87f6f6811ab114a382ca543ba8263eb21f8b7410ebaf35

• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20170214 Re: Pending CVE requests for glibchttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/9mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• sourceware.orghttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17269x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.sourceware.org[libc-alpha] 20150814 The GNU C Library version 2.22 is now availablehttps://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-08/msg00609.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• sourceware.orghttps://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=bdf1ff052a8e23d637f2c838fa5642d78fcedc33x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.securityfocus.com72740http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72740vdb-entryx_refsource_BID