CVE-2014-7186

critical
Published 2014-09-28 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

The redirection implementation in parse.y in GNU Bash through 4.3 bash43-026 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted use of here documents, aka the "redir_stack" issue.

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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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-36933 remote linux verified
fdiskyou ยท 2014-09-29

dhclient 4.1 - Bash Environment Variable Command Injection (Shellshock)

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EDB-34860 remote linux
@0x00string ยท 2014-10-02

GNU bash 4.3.11 - Environment Variable dhclient

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OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4.3-9.2
sid Fixed 4.3-9.2
forky Fixed 4.3-9.2
bullseye Fixed 4.3-9.2
bookworm Fixed 4.3-9.2

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnubash1.14.0
gnubash1.14.1
gnubash1.14.2
gnubash1.14.3
gnubash1.14.4
gnubash1.14.5
gnubash1.14.6
gnubash1.14.7
gnubash2.0
gnubash2.01
gnubash2.01.1
gnubash2.02
gnubash2.02.1
gnubash2.03
gnubash2.04
gnubash2.05
gnubash3.0
gnubash3.0.16
gnubash3.1
gnubash3.2
gnubash3.2.48
gnubash4.0
gnubash4.1
gnubash4.2
gnubash4.3

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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