Privilege escalation in zsh - CVE-2014-10070

Vulnerability identifier: #VU10872

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-10070

CWE-ID: CWE-264

Exploitation vector: Local access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.

The weakness exists due to improper security restrictions when initial evaluating the values of imported integer variables. A local attacker can gain elevated privileges.

zsh
SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
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zsh-debuginfo
zsh-debugsource

Update to version 5.0.7.

zsh - update to 4.3.6-67.9.8.1
zsh-debuginfo - update to 4.3.6-67.9.8.1
zsh-debugsource - update to 4.3.6-67.9.8.1

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/zsh/files/zsh/5.0.7/zsh-5.0.7.tar.gz/download

• Denial of service in SourceForge zsh
• SUSE Linux update for zsh
• OpenSUSE Linux update for zsh
• SUSE update for zsh