CVE-2014-7817

CVE Details

Release Date:	2014-11-20
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

It was found that the wordexp() function would perform command substitution even when the WRDE_NOCMD flag was specified. An attacker able to provide specially crafted input to an application using the wordexp() function, and not sanitizing the input correctly, could potentially use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands with the credentials of the user running that application.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	3.6
Vector String:	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Local
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (glibc)	ELSA-2015-0016	2015-01-07
Oracle Linux version 7 (glibc)	ELSA-2014-2023	2014-12-18
Oracle VM version 3.3 (glibc)	OVMSA-2015-0003	2015-01-08