cve/2015/CVE-2015-4042.md

### [CVE-2015-4042](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4042)
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### Description

Integer overflow in the keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via long strings.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
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