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HistoryDec 03, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

GNU C Library vulnerabilities

2014-12-0300:00:00
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36

9.3 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.016 Low

EPSS

Percentile

87.1%

Releases

  • Ubuntu 14.10
  • Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
  • Ubuntu 12.04
  • Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

  • eglibc - GNU C Library
  • glibc - GNU C Library

Details

Siddhesh Poyarekar discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled
certain multibyte characters when using the iconv function. An attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause applications to crash, resulting in
a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu
12.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-6656)

Adhemerval Zanella Netto discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly
handled certain multibyte characters when using the iconv function. An
attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-6040)

Tim Waugh discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly enforced the
WRDE_NOCMD flag when handling the wordexp function. An attacker could
possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2014-7817)

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Ubuntu14.10noarchlibc6< 2.19-10ubuntu2.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu14.10noarchlibc-bin< 2.19-10ubuntu2.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu14.10noarchlibc-dev-bin< 2.19-10ubuntu2.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu14.10noarchlibc6-dbg< 2.19-10ubuntu2.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu14.10noarchlibc6-dev< 2.19-10ubuntu2.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu14.10noarchlibc6-dev-i386< 2.19-10ubuntu2.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu14.10noarchlibc6-dev-x32< 2.19-10ubuntu2.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu14.10noarchlibc6-i386< 2.19-10ubuntu2.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu14.10noarchlibc6-pic< 2.19-10ubuntu2.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu14.10noarchlibc6-prof< 2.19-10ubuntu2.1UNKNOWN
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9.3 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.016 Low

EPSS

Percentile

87.1%