PT-2014-5691 · Gnu+3 · Glibc+3

Alex Gaynor + 2 · Published 2014-06-13 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2014-4043

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV: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.

Exploit

Fix

Code Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-94

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-2084

CVE-2014-4043

DLA-165-1

DSA-3169-1

MGASA-2014-0314

OPENSUSE-SU-2015_1387-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10154-1

SUSE-RU-2015:0794-1

SUSE-SU-2014_0920-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0253-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0439-1

USN-2306-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

Glibc

References · 252

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/linux/smtp/exim_gethostbyname_bof.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/aaronfay/CVE-2015-0235-test · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/makelinux/CVE-2015-0235-workaround · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/arm13/ghost_exploit · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/geekben/cve-collections/blob/master/cve20150235poc.c · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/mikesplain/CVE-2015-0235-cookbook · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/mholzinger/CVE-2015-0235_GHOST · Exploit
• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1109263 · Exploit
• 🔥 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 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=blobdiff;f=ChangeLog;h=3020b9ac232315df362521aeaf85f21cb9926db8;hp=d86e73963dd9fb5e21b1a28326630337226812aa;hb=89e435f3559c53084498e9baad22172b64429362;hpb=c3a2ebe1f7541cc35937621e08c28ff88afd0845 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2207 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2015-2084 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09813 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8984 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-4043 · Vendor Advisory