PT-2014-5691
CVE-2014-4043
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Published
2014-06-13
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Updated
2024-06-15
Description by
CVSS 2.0
7.5
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
glibc versions prior to 2.20
Description
The issue is related to the posix spawn file actions addopen function in glibc, which does not properly copy its path argument as per the POSIX specification. This can be exploited by context-dependent attackers to trigger use-after-free issues.
Recommendations
For versions prior to 2.20, update to version 2.20 or later to resolve the issue.
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