CVE-2015-4471

Exp

Off-by-one error in the lzxd_decompress function in lzxd.c in libmspack before 0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer under-read and application crash) via a crafted CAB archive.

Published: 2015-06-11 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2015-4471 is rated Exploit Available (55.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.58%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2015-4471

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-4471

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-05-21 0.66% 0.58% -0.08%
2 2025-03-30 1.88% 0.66% -1.21%
3 2025-03-29 — 1.88% —

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-4471

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2015-4471

OS Trackers for CVE-2015-4471

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2015-4471 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (libmspack), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-4471
ubuntu medium CVE-2015-4471 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (cabextract, libmspack), 32 status rows across 19 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 25, released 4, DNE 2, ignored 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4471

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-4471

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
libmspack_project libmspack <= 0.4-3 cpe:2.3:a:libmspack_project:libmspack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-4471

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