VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-0475

medium
Published 2014-07-29 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.19-6
sid Fixed 2.19-6
forky Fixed 2.19-6
bullseye Fixed 2.19-6
bookworm Fixed 2.19-6

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnuglibc{"endIncluding":"2.19"}
gnuglibc2.0
gnuglibc2.0.1
gnuglibc2.0.2
gnuglibc2.0.3
gnuglibc2.0.4
gnuglibc2.0.5
gnuglibc2.0.6
gnuglibc2.1
gnuglibc2.1.1
gnuglibc2.1.1.6
gnuglibc2.1.2
gnuglibc2.1.3
gnuglibc2.1.9
gnuglibc2.10.1
gnuglibc2.11
gnuglibc2.11.1
gnuglibc2.11.2
gnuglibc2.11.3
gnuglibc2.12
gnuglibc2.12.1
gnuglibc2.12.2
gnuglibc2.13
gnuglibc2.14
gnuglibc2.14.1
gnuglibc2.15
gnuglibc2.16
gnuglibc2.17
gnuglibc2.18

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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