| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'eglibc' package(s) announced via the DLA-97-1 advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
CVE-2012-6656
Fix validation check when converting from ibm930 to utf. When converting IBM930 code with iconv(), if IBM930 code which includes invalid multibyte character 0xffff is specified, then iconv() segfaults.
CVE-2014-6040
Crashes on invalid input in IBM gconv modules [BZ #17325] These changes are based on the fix for BZ #14134 in commit 6e230d11837f3ae7b375ea69d7905f0d18eb79e5.
CVE-2014-7817
The function wordexp() fails to properly handle the WRDE_NOCMD flag when processing arithmetic inputs in the form of '$((... ``))' where '...' can be anything valid. The backticks in the arithmetic epxression are evaluated by in a shell even if WRDE_NOCMD forbade command substitution. This allows an attacker to attempt to pass dangerous commands via constructs of the above form, and bypass the WRDE_NOCMD flag. This patch fixes this by checking for WRDE_NOCMD in exec_comm(), the only place that can execute a shell. All other checks for WRDE_NOCMD are superfluous and removed.
For Debian 6 Squeeze, these issues have been fixed in eglibc version 2.11.3-4+deb6u2
Affected Software/OS:
'eglibc' package(s) on Debian 6.
Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).
CVSS Score:
5.0
CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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