Improper Input Validation Affecting glibc package, versions [,2.21]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.06% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLIBC-2319035
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed24 Nov 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-7817  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for glibc.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. The wordexp function in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.21 does not enforce the WRDE_NOCMD flag, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands, as demonstrated by input containing "$((...))".

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