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Unscored USN-2306-1 3 CVEs

eglibc vulnerabilities

Published Aug 4, 2014 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

Maksymilian Arciemowicz discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly
handled the getaddrinfo() function. An attacker could use this issue to
cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
(CVE-2013-4357)

It was discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled the
getaddrinfo() function. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial
of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
(CVE-2013-4458)

Stephane Chazelas discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled
locale environment variables. An attacker could use this issue to possibly
bypass certain restrictions such as the ForceCommand restrictions in
OpenSSH. (CVE-2014-0475)

David Reid, Glyph Lefkowitz, and Alex Gaynor discovered that the GNU C
Library incorrectly handled posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen() path
arguments. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2014-4043)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS eglibc 2.19-0ubuntu6.1

Vulnerabilities 3

  • Unscored —

    Stack-based buffer overflow in the getaddrinfo function in sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc or l…

  • Unscored —

    Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.20 allow context-dependent …

  • Unscored —

    The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen function in glibc before 2.20 does not copy its path argument in accordance with t…

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4357
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4458
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-0475
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-4043