CVE-2018-1000001 - log back

CVE-2018-1000001 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity
+ High
Remote
+ Local
Type
+ Privilege escalation
Description
+ A buffer underflow vulnerability has been discovered in the realpath() function in glibc 2.26 when getcwd() returns a relative or unreachable path (i.e. not starting with '/') which may allow privilege escalation under certain conditions.
References
+ http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/01/11/5
+ https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22679
+ https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=52a713fdd0a30e1bd79818e2e3c4ab44ddca1a94
Notes