VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-0475

medium
Published 2014-07-29 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-0475

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.19-6
debian debianbullseyefixed2.19-6
debian debianforkyfixed2.19-6
debian debiansidfixed2.19-6
debian debiantrixiefixed2.19-6

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnuglibc{"endIncluding":"2.19"}
gnuglibc2.0
gnuglibc2.0.1
gnuglibc2.0.2
gnuglibc2.0.3
gnuglibc2.0.4
gnuglibc2.0.5
gnuglibc2.0.6
gnuglibc2.1
gnuglibc2.1.1
gnuglibc2.1.1.6
gnuglibc2.1.2
gnuglibc2.1.3
gnuglibc2.1.9
gnuglibc2.10.1
gnuglibc2.11
gnuglibc2.11.1
gnuglibc2.11.2
gnuglibc2.11.3
gnuglibc2.12
gnuglibc2.12.1
gnuglibc2.12.2
gnuglibc2.13
gnuglibc2.14
gnuglibc2.14.1
gnuglibc2.15
gnuglibc2.16
gnuglibc2.17
gnuglibc2.18

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.