CVE-2011-1095 Command injection in n/a
Local attackers can gain privileges via crafted environment variables exploiting unquoted output in glibc's locale utility.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2011-1095?
CVE-2011-1095 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Gnu Glibc, published on 10 Apr 2011. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-1095?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Gnu Glibc.
How do I fix CVE-2011-1095?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.
Is CVE-2011-1095 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-1095 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Gnu Glibc
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1095, GHSA-hhjf-9w4x-vhhf.