CVE catalog
CVE-2015-4042
coreutils: CVE-2015-4042
- Severity
- Critical · CVSS 9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 2.30% · Oct 25, 2026
Integer overflow in the keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via long 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 |
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 |
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: