Updated glibc packages fix security issues

Stephane Chazelas discovered that directory traversal issue in locale handling in glibc. glibc accepts relative paths with ".." components in the LC and LANG variables. Together with typical OpenSSH configurations with suitable AcceptEnv settings in sshdconfig, this could conceivably be used to...

MGASA-2014-0314 Updated glibc packages fix security issues

Stephane Chazelas discovered that directory traversal issue in locale handling in glibc. glibc accepts relative paths with ".." components in the LC and LANG variables. Together with typical OpenSSH configurations with suitable AcceptEnv settings in sshdconfig, this could conceivably be used to...

USN-2306-2: GNU C Library regression

USN-2306-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library. On Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, the security update cause a regression in certain environments that use the Name Service Caching Daemon nscd, such as those configured for LDAP or MySQL authentication. In these environments, the nscd daemon may need to b...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : GNU C Library vulnerabilities (USN-2306-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2306-1 advisory. Maksymilian Arciemowicz discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled the getaddrinfo function. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denia...

USN-2306-1 eglibc vulnerabilities

Maksymilian Arciemowicz discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled the getaddrinfo function. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. CVE-2013-4357 It was discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled the...

USN-2306-1: GNU C Library vulnerabilities

Maksymilian Arciemowicz discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled the getaddrinfo function. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. CVE-2013-4357 It was discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled the...

CVE-2014-0475

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...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0475

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...

Directory traversal

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...

CVE-2014-0475

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...

CVE-2014-0475

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...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0475

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...

glibc protection bypass

It may be possible to bypass some restriction because of incorrect .. seqence processing in locale related functions...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2976-1] eglibc security update

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2976-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer July 10, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

GNU glibc < 2.12.2 'fnmatch()' Function Stack Corruption Vulnerability

No description provided by source. / Source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46563/info GNU glibc is prone to a stack-corruption vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary machine code in the context of the application that uses the affected library. Failed exploit...

Libc locale exploit (2)

No description provided by source. / source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1634/info ectiva 4.x/5.x,Debian 2.x,IBM AIX 3.x/4.x,Mandrake 7,RedHat 5.x/6.x,IRIX 6.x, Solaris 2.x/7/8,Turbolinux 6.x,Wirex Immunix OS 6.2 Locale Subsystem Format String Many UNIX operating systems provide...

Immunix OS 6.2 LC glibc format string

No description provided by source. / source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1634/info nectiva 4.x/5.x,Debian 2.x,IBM AIX 3.x/4.x,Mandrake 7,RedHat 5.x/6.x,IRIX 6.x, Solaris 2.x/7/8,Turbolinux 6.x,Wirex Immunix OS 6.2 Locale Subsystem Format String Many UNIX operating systems provide...

RedHat 6 glibc/locale Subsystem Format String

No description provided by source. / source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1634/info Conectiva 4.x/5.x,Debian 2.x,IBM AIX 3.x/4.x,Mandrake 7,RedHat 5.x/6.x,IRIX 6.x, Solaris 2.x/7/8,Turbolinux 6.x,Wirex Immunix OS 6.2 Locale Subsystem Format String Many UNIX operating systems provide...

Solaris 2.6/7.0 /locale Subsystem Format String

No description provided by source. / source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1634/info nectiva 4.x/5.x,Debian 2.x,IBM AIX 3.x/4.x,Mandrake 7,RedHat 5.x/6.x,IRIX 6.x, Solaris 2.x/7/8,Turbolinux 6.x,Wirex Immunix OS 6.2 Locale Subsystem Format String Many UNIX operating systems provide...

Caldera UnixWare 7.1.1 Message Catalog Environment Variable Format String Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4060/info UnixWare is a commercially available Unix Operating System. It was originally developed by SCO, and is now distributed and maintained by Caldera. A format string vulnerability in the locale subsystem could lead ...