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CVE-2014-0475

Public on 2014-07-29
Modified on 2014-09-19
Description

A directory traveral flaw was found in the way glibc loaded locale files. An attacker able to make an application use a specially crafted locale name value (for example, specified in an LC_* environment variable) could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of that application.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.0
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 glibc 2014-09-17 21:41 ALAS-2014-400

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 6.0 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P