CVE-2014-6262 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2014-6262?

CVE-2014-6262 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 12 Feb 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in the python module in RRDtool, as used in Zenoss Core before 4.2.5 and other products, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted third argument to the rrdtool.graph function, aka ZEN-15415, a related issue to CVE-2013-2131.

Weakness: CWE-134

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-6262?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Zenoss Zenoss Core.

How do I fix CVE-2014-6262?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2014-6262 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-6262 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6262, DLA-2131-1, GHSA-f8vh-3m24-38r6, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-6262.