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CVE-2014-0475 (GCVE-0-2014-0475)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-07-29 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 09:20
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Summary
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.20 allow context-dependent attackers to bypass ForceCommand restrictions and possibly have other unspecified impact via a .. (dot dot) in a (1) LC_*, (2) LANG, or other locale environment variable.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2014-07-09 00:00
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