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F5: CVE-2015-8985: K25552364: GNU C Library vulnerability CVE-2015-8985

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Severity

CVSS

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

Published

Apr 25, 2017

Added

Jun 17, 2026

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The pop_fail_stack function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application crash) via vectors related to extended regular expression processing.

Solution

f5-bigip-upgrade-latest

References

CVE-2015-8985
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2015-8985
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K25552364
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2015-8839
EUVD-EUVD-2015-8839

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