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CVE-2015-7510

CRITICAL

9.8

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.1830%

EPSS Percentile22.27th

PublishedSep 25, 2017

Last ModifiedMay 13, 2026

Vulnerability Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the getpwnam and getgrnam functions of the NSS module nss-mymachines in systemd.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

📦

Systemd Project

Systemd

= 223

References & Advisories

🔗 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284642

🔗 https://github.com/keszybz/systemd/commit/cb31827d62066a04b02111df3052949fda4b6888

🔗 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2002

🔗 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284642

🔗 https://github.com/keszybz/systemd/commit/cb31827d62066a04b02111df3052949fda4b6888

🔗 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2002

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