CVE-2014-4043

Published: 13 June 2014

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.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
eglibc Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.19-2)





	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Released (2.19-0ubuntu6.1)
	Patches: Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;h=89e435f3559c53084498e9baad22172b64429362 (p1) Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;h=35a5e3e338ae17f3d42c60a708763c5d498fb840 (p2)
glibc Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.19-2)





	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Does not exist

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4043
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/13/2
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2306-1
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Bugs

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17048
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=751774

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