CVE-2014-0475

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-07-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

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.

Affected products

GNU C Library (glibc): through 2.19; 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+22)

References

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0092.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2976
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:152
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/10/7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/14/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68505
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030569
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1110.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17137
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0092.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2976

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