CVE-2014-0475

MEDIUM

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.20 allow context-dependent attackers to bypass ForceCommand restrictions and possibly have other unspecified impact via a .. (dot dot) in a (1) LC_*, (2) LANG, or other locale environment variable.

References

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0092.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2976

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:152

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/10/7

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/14/6

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68505

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030569

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1110.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17137

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2014-07-29

Updated: 2016-11-28

Type: CWE-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM