glibc is vulnerable to directory traversal attacks. The vulnerability exists through multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.20 allow context-dependent attackers to bypass ForceCommand restrictions and possibly have other unspecified impact via a ..
(dot dot) in a (1) LC_*
, (2) LANG
, or other locale environment variable.
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