Access Restriction Bypass Affecting glibc package, versions [,2.13)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLIBC-2319056
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed10 Apr 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Apr 2011

CVE-2011-1095  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade glibc to version 2.13 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass locale/programs/locale.c in locale in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.13 does not quote its output, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted localization environment variable, in conjunction with a program that executes a script that uses the eval function.

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