Vulnerability CVE-2014-5119

Vulnerability CVE-2014-5119

Published: 2014-08-29

Description:

Off-by-one error in the __gconv_translit_find function in gconv_trans.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc) allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the CHARSET environment variable and gconv transliteration modules.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

	Topic	Author	Date
Med.	glibc Off-by-One NUL Byte gconv_translit_find Exploit	Tavis and Chris	28.08.2014

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10	6.4/10	10/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Remote	Low	No required
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
Partial	Partial	Partial

Affected software
GNU -> Glibc

References:

http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-poisoned-nul-byte-2014-edition.html

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0092.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00017.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1118.html

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Aug/69

http://secunia.com/advisories/60345

http://secunia.com/advisories/60358

http://secunia.com/advisories/60441

http://secunia.com/advisories/61074

http://secunia.com/advisories/61093

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2014-5119

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21685604

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3012

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:175

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/14/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/13/5

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68983

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69738

https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=96

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1110.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17187

Vulnerability CVE-2014-5119

Off-by-one error in the __gconv_translit_find function in gconv_trans.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc) allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the CHARSET environment variable and gconv transliteration modules.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

Med.

glibc Off-by-One NUL Byte gconv_translit_find Exploit

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

7.5/10

6.4/10

10/10

Remote

Low

No required

Partial

Partial

Partial

Affected software

References: