7.5 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.012 Low
EPSS
Percentile
84.7%
CVE-2014-5119 glib_gconv_translit_find() exploit
Important
Canonical Ubuntu
Certain applications could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.
Off-by-one error in the __gconv_translit_find function in gconv_trans.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc) allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the CHARSET environment variable and gconv transliteration modules.
_Severity is important unless otherwise noted.
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Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:
This issue was discovered by Tavis Ormandy and John Haxby.
2014-Sep-19: Initial vulnerability report published.