CVE catalog
CVE-2015-4041
coreutils: CVE-2015-4041
- Severity
- High · CVSS 7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 0.52% · Oct 25, 2026
The keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 on 64-bit platforms performs a size calculation without considering the number of bytes occupied by multibyte characters, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via long UTF-8 strings.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | coreutils | sid | 9.10-1 | not affected |
| Debian | coreutils | forky | 9.10-1 | not affected |
| Debian | coreutils | trixie | 9.7-3 | not affected |
| Debian | coreutils | bookworm | 9.1-1 | not affected |
| Suse | coreutils | linux enterprise desktop 12 | 8.22-9.1 | fixed |
| Suse | coreutils | linux enterprise server 12 | 8.22-9.1 | fixed |
| Suse | coreutils | linux enterprise server for sap applications 12 | 8.22-9.1 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | coreutils | source | sid | Not affected | unimportant | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | coreutils | source | forky | Not affected | unimportant | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | coreutils | source | trixie | Not affected | unimportant | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | coreutils | source | bookworm | Not affected | unimportant | Not reported | Not reported |
| Suse | coreutils | rpm | linux enterprise desktop 12 | 8.22-9.1 | Not reported | SUSE-SU-2015:1637-1 | Not reported |
| Suse | coreutils | rpm | linux enterprise server 12 | 8.22-9.1 | Not reported | SUSE-SU-2015:1637-1 | Not reported |
| Suse | coreutils | rpm | linux enterprise server for sap applications 12 | 8.22-9.1 | Not reported | SUSE-SU-2015:1637-1 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]
- [coreutils]Not affected
Details (2)
9.1-1· amd64 · bookwormNot affected
dsa · coreutils · debian · bookworm
9.1-1· arm64 · bookwormNot affected
dsa · coreutils · debian · bookworm
Observed:
References
- [https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/suse-su-2015_1637-1.json]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2015:1637-1]
- [https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-4041]
[Debian Security Tracker] · [FIRST EPSS] · [OSV Package Vulnerability Database] · [SUSE security advisories and VEX]