CVE-2014-7817 (GCVE-0-2014-7817)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-11-24 15:00
Modified
2024-08-06 13:03
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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 "$((`...`))".
References
secalert@redhat.com http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html
secalert@redhat.com http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0092.html Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00089.html Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-2023.html Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/730
secalert@redhat.com http://secunia.com/advisories/62100
secalert@redhat.com http://secunia.com/advisories/62146
secalert@redhat.com http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142 Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2018-3236628.html
secalert@redhat.com http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
secalert@redhat.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71216
secalert@redhat.com http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1
secalert@redhat.com https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98852
secalert@redhat.com https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02
secalert@redhat.com https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17625
secalert@redhat.com https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a39208bd7fb76c1b01c127b4c61f9bfd915bfe7c
secalert@redhat.com https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-11/msg00519.html Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0092.html Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00089.html Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-2023.html Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/730
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://secunia.com/advisories/62100
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://secunia.com/advisories/62146
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142 Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2018-3236628.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71216
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98852
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17625
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a39208bd7fb76c1b01c127b4c61f9bfd915bfe7c
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-11/msg00519.html Vendor Advisory
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  • Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.