CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-7817
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-11-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The wordexp function in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.21 does not enforce the WRDE_NOCMD flag, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands, as demonstrated by input containing "$((`...`))".
Affected configurations
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.10
• debian debian linux 7.0
• gnu glibc 2.21
• opensuse opensuse 13.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html linux.oracle.com
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0092.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00089.html Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-2023.html Vendor Advisory
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/730 seclists.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62100 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62146 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2018-3236628.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71216 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98852 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17625 sourceware.org
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a39208bd7fb76c1b01c127b4c61f9bfd915bfe7c sourceware.org
- https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-11/msg00519.html Vendor Advisory
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html linux.oracle.com
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0092.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00089.html Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-2023.html Vendor Advisory
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/730 seclists.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62100 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62146 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2018-3236628.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71216 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98852 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17625 sourceware.org
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a39208bd7fb76c1b01c127b4c61f9bfd915bfe7c sourceware.org
- https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-11/msg00519.html Vendor Advisory