CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-0475

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2014-07-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-07-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-22

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.

Affected configurations

• gnu glibc (<= 2.19) • gnu glibc 2.0 • gnu glibc 2.0.1 • gnu glibc 2.0.2 • gnu glibc 2.0.3 • gnu glibc 2.0.4 • gnu glibc 2.0.5 • gnu glibc 2.0.6 • gnu glibc 2.1 • gnu glibc 2.1.1 • gnu glibc 2.1.1.6 • gnu glibc 2.1.2 • gnu glibc 2.1.3 • gnu glibc 2.1.9 • gnu glibc 2.10.1 • gnu glibc 2.11 • gnu glibc 2.11.1 • gnu glibc 2.11.2 • gnu glibc 2.11.3 • gnu glibc 2.12 • gnu glibc 2.12.1 • gnu glibc 2.12.2 • gnu glibc 2.13 • gnu glibc 2.14 • gnu glibc 2.14.1 • gnu glibc 2.15 • gnu glibc 2.16 • gnu glibc 2.17 • gnu glibc 2.18

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References