USN-2328-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2014-5119)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2014-08-29 02:06 – Updated: 2026-04-22 07:36 – Source website
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Summary
eglibc vulnerability
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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.

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  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:36:32Z",
  "published": "2014-08-29T02:06:39Z",
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