CVE-2014-0475 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2014-0475?

CVE-2014-0475 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Gnu Glibc, published on 29 Jul 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.20 allow context-dependent attackers to bypass ForceCommand restrictions and possibly have other unspecified impact via a .. (dot dot) in a (1) LC_*, (2) LANG, or other locale environment variable.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-0475?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Gnu Glibc.

How do I fix CVE-2014-0475?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2014-0475 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-0475 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Gnu Glibc vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0475, DSA-2976-1, GHSA-5rvh-fh5r-rhfv, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0475.