CVE-2014-5119

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 18%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDAug 29

1st PoCAug 27

exploitation probability

18%top 3% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

Off-by-one error in the __gconv_translit_find function in gconv_trans.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc) allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the CHARSET environment variable and gconv transliteration modules.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/34421

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References

http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-poisoned-nul-byte-2014-edition.html http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0092.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00017.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1118.html https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=96 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Aug/69 http://secunia.com/advisories/60345 http://secunia.com/advisories/60358 http://secunia.com/advisories/60441 http://secunia.com/advisories/61074 http://secunia.com/advisories/61093 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1110.html