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CVE-2014-7817

CVE-2014-7817

EPSS 0.6%
The wordexp function in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.21 does not enforce the WRDE_NOCMD flag, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands, as demonstrated by input containing "$((`...`))".
Affected products
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References
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.htmlhttp://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0092.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00089.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-2023.htmlhttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/730http://secunia.com/advisories/62100http://secunia.com/advisories/62146https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98852https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17625https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a39208bd7fb76c1b01c127b4c61f9bfd915bfe7chttps://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-11/msg00519.html