debian · CVE-2015-5218

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Priority: unimportant Published: Updated: Mon, 06 Jul 2026 01:00:57 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2015-5218 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (util-linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

Buffer overflow in text-utils/colcrt.c in colcrt in util-linux before 2.27 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file, related to the page global variable.

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