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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 11:38:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Francisco Alonso <falonsoe@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE-2014-7817 glibc: command execution in wordexp() with WRDE_NOCMD
specified
Hello,
It was discovered that the wordexp() function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag under certain input conditions resulting in the execution
of a shell for command substitution when the applicaiton did not request it.
Bug report:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2014-7817
Git commit:
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=a39208bd7fb76c1b01c127b4c61f9bfd915bfe7c
References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157689
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-11/msg00519.html
Francisco Alonso / Red Hat Product Security
PGP: 0xA026440E 0825 020C 7A5A 4F86 9038 B1C8 5562 688F A026 440E
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