CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-4043

7.5 HIGH Published 2014-10-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-10-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-94

Description

The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen function in glibc before 2.20 does not copy its path argument in accordance with the POSIX specification, which allows context-dependent attackers to trigger use-after-free vulnerabilities.

Affected configurations

• gnu glibc (<= 2.19) • opensuse opensuse 13.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness

References