USN-2364-1

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    USN-2364-1

    Published: 27 Sept 2014Last Modified: 10 Feb 2026

    Summary: bash vulnerabilities

    Details: Florian Weimer and Todd Sabin discovered that the Bash parser incorrectly handled memory. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass certain environment restrictions and execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-7186, CVE-2014-7187) In addition, this update introduces a hardening measure which adds prefixes and suffixes around environment variable names which contain shell functions.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2364-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-7186, https://ubuntu.com/security/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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