CVE-2015-1473Medium

Microsoft security update for CVE-2015-1473 — azl3 dietlibc 0.34-7 on Azure Linux 3.0

Published
April 12, 2025
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products1

  • azl3 dietlibc 0.34-7 on Azure Linux 3.0

✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update

1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.

KB articleUpdateFixed build
—Security Update0.34-7

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2015-1473

EchelonGraph score
6.4 MEDIUM
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

The ADDW macro in stdio-common/vfscanf.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.21 does not properly consider data-type size during a risk-management decision for use of the alloca function, which might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation) or overwrite memory locations beyond the stack boundary via a long line containing wide characters that are improperly handled in a wscanf call.

Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2015-1473, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

🔗 References (2)