CVE-2014-0476 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2014-0476?

CVE-2014-0476 is a low-severity command injection vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 25 Oct 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The slapper function in chkrootkit before 0.50 does not properly quote file paths, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse executable. NOTE: this is only a vulnerability when /tmp is not mounted with the noexec option.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-0476?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Chkrootkit Chkrootkit.

How do I fix CVE-2014-0476?

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-2014-0476 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2014-0476 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0476, DLA-0002-1, DSA-2945-1, GHSA-f6jc-6vm7-jv5m, MGASA-2014-0249, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0476 and 1 more.