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F5: CVE-2015-8776: K23946311: glibc vulnerability CVE-2015-8776

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)

Published

Apr 1, 2016

Added

Jun 17, 2026

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The strftime function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly obtain sensitive information via an out-of-range time value.

Solution

f5-bigip-upgrade-latest

References

CVE-2015-8776
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2015-8776
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K23946311
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2015-8648
EUVD-EUVD-2015-8648

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