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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2020-1752: glibc: use-after-free in glob() function when expanding ~user

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2020-1752: glibc: use-after-free in glob() function when expanding ~user

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/30/2020
Created
03/13/2021
Added
03/12/2021
Modified
05/10/2023

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability introduced in glibc upstream version 2.14 was found in the way the tilde expansion was carried out. Directory paths containing an initial tilde followed by a valid username were affected by this issue. A local attacker could exploit this flaw by creating a specially crafted path that, when processed by the glob function, would potentially lead to arbitrary code execution. This was fixed in version 2.32.

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos

References

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