Summary
Tavis Ormandy and John Haxby discovered that the GNU C Library contained an
off-by-one error when performing transliteration module loading. A local
attacker could exploit this to gain administrative privileges.
(CVE-2014-5119)
USN-2306-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library. On Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS the security update for CVE-2014-0475 caused a
regression with localplt on PowerPC. This update fixes the problem. We
apologize for the inconvenience.
Fixed packages 1
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS | eglibc | 2.19-0ubuntu6.3 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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Unscored —
Off-by-one error in the __gconv_translit_find function in gconv_trans.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc) allows context-dep…
References
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report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-5119