Buffer overflow in the environment variable substitution code in main.c in OSH 1.7-14 allows local users to inject arbitrary environment…

Description

Buffer overflow in the environment variable substitution code in main.c in OSH 1.7-14 allows local users to inject arbitrary environment variables, such as LD_PRELOAD, via pathname arguments of the form "$VAR/EVAR=arg", which cause the EVAR portion to be appended to a buffer returned by a getenv function call.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.85% · top 42% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• 20720 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• osh-main-execute-code(23091) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 17967 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=338312 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• DSA-918 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 15370 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 17527 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://pulltheplug.org/users/core/files/x_osh3.sh (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• ADV-2005-2378 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 23:10 UTC.