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Case File

CVE-2015-4041

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 0.52% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-01-24 · Last synced 2026-08-04

Field Assessment

AI analysis pending.

Exhibit — Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2015-4041
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
0.52%

Original Filing — NVD Description

The keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 on 64-bit platforms performs a size calculation without considering the number of bytes occupied by multibyte characters, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via long UTF-8 strings.