UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7187

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7187

    Published: 26 Sept 2014Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-7187
    Aliases:
    USN-2364-1

    Summary:

    Details: Off-by-one error in the read_token_word function in parse.y in GNU Bash through 4.3 bash43-026 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via deeply nested for loops, aka the "word_lineno" issue.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-7187, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/25/32, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2364-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-7187

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: bash

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.3-7ubuntu1.4

    Affected versions

    4.2-5ubuntu3

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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