Code Injection in Opensuse - CVE-2014-4043
Published: October 7, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41240
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-4043
CWE-ID: CWE-94
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen function in glibc before 2.20 does not copy its path argument in accordance with the POSIX specification, which allows context-dependent attackers to trigger use-after-free vulnerabilities.
Affected software
Opensuse
Gentoo Linux
Slackware Linux
glibc
glibc-i18n
glibc-profile
glibc-solibs
sys-libs/glibc
Gentoo Linux
Slackware Linux
glibc
glibc-i18n
glibc-profile
glibc-solibs
sys-libs/glibc
How to mitigate CVE-2014-4043
Install update from vendor's website.
glibc - update to 2.17
glibc-i18n - update to 2.17
glibc-profile - update to 2.17
glibc-solibs - update to 2.17
sys-libs/glibc - update to 2.19-r1
glibc-i18n - update to 2.17
glibc-profile - update to 2.17
glibc-solibs - update to 2.17
sys-libs/glibc - update to 2.19-r1
External References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00012.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153278/WAGO-852-Industrial-Managed-Switch-Series-Code-Execution-Hardcoded-Credentials.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154361/Cisco-Device-Hardcoded-Credentials-GNU-glibc-BusyBox.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/18
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/7
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:152
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68006
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1109263
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/93784
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/14
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/7
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-04
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17048
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=blobdiff;f=ChangeLog;h=3020b9ac232315df362521aeaf85f21cb9926db8;hp=d86e73963dd9fb5e21b1a28326630337226812aa;hb=89e435f3559c53084498e9baad22172b64429362;hpb=c3a2ebe1f7541cc35937621e08c28ff88afd0845
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=blobdiff;f=posix/spawn_faction_addopen.c;h=40800b8e6e81341501c0fb8a91009529e2048dec;hp=47f62425b696a4fdd511b2a057746322eb6518db;hb=89e435f3559c53084498e9baad22172b64429362;hpb=c3a2ebe1f7541cc35937621e08c28ff88afd0845
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=89e435f3559c53084498e9baad22172b64429362