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CVE-2015-5185 json

The lookupProviders function in providerMgr.c in sblim-sfcb 1.3.4 and 1.3.18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL poi…

published 2015-09-28 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-5186

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.4%
EPSS 3.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The lookupProviders function in providerMgr.c in sblim-sfcb 1.3.4 and 1.3.18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an empty className in a packet.

Patch / fix

  • sblim-sfcb SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES for SAP 11 SP3, SLES 11 SP4 +4 more 1.3.11-0.25.4
  • sblim-sfcb SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12, SLED 12 1.4.8-5.3.3

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2015:2218-1SUSE-SU-2015:2116-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-5185 updated cvss 2.7

sblim-sfcb: lookupProviders() null pointer dereference

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 sblim-sfcb Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 sblim-sfcb
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 rhev-hypervisor
    affected: no fix available

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • openwall.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/21/2 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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