USN-2432-1

Siddhesh Poyarekar discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled certain multibyte characters when using the iconv function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-6656)

Adhemerval Zanella Netto discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled certain multibyte characters when using the iconv function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-6040)

Tim Waugh discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly enforced the WRDE_NOCMD flag when handling the wordexp function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2014-7817)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / eglibc

Package

Name: eglibc
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/eglibc@2.19-0ubuntu6.4?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.19-0ubuntu6.4

Affected versions

2.*

2.17-93ubuntu4

2.18-0ubuntu1

2.18-0ubuntu2

2.18-0ubuntu4

2.18-0ubuntu5

2.18-0ubuntu6

2.18-0ubuntu7

2.19-0ubuntu2

2.19-0ubuntu3

2.19-0ubuntu4

2.19-0ubuntu5

2.19-0ubuntu6

2.19-0ubuntu6.1

2.19-0ubuntu6.3

Ecosystem specific

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            "binary_version": "2.19-0ubuntu6.4",
            "binary_name": "eglibc-source"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.19-0ubuntu6.4",
            "binary_name": "libc-bin"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.19-0ubuntu6.4",
            "binary_name": "libc-dev-bin"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.19-0ubuntu6.4",
            "binary_name": "libc6"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.19-0ubuntu6.4",
            "binary_name": "libc6-amd64"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.19-0ubuntu6.4",
            "binary_name": "libc6-armel"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.19-0ubuntu6.4",
            "binary_name": "libc6-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.19-0ubuntu6.4",
            "binary_name": "libc6-dev-amd64"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.19-0ubuntu6.4",
            "binary_name": "libc6-dev-armel"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.19-0ubuntu6.4",
            "binary_name": "libc6-dev-i386"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.19-0ubuntu6.4",
            "binary_name": "libc6-dev-ppc64"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.19-0ubuntu6.4",
            "binary_name": "libc6-dev-x32"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.19-0ubuntu6.4",
            "binary_name": "libc6-i386"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.19-0ubuntu6.4",
            "binary_name": "libc6-pic"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.19-0ubuntu6.4",
            "binary_name": "libc6-ppc64"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.19-0ubuntu6.4",
            "binary_name": "libc6-prof"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.19-0ubuntu6.4",
            "binary_name": "libc6-x32"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.19-0ubuntu6.4",
            "binary_name": "multiarch-support"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.19-0ubuntu6.4",
            "binary_name": "nscd"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "low"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2014-6040"
        },
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2014-7817"
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}