CVE-2014-10071: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In exec.c in zsh before 5.0.7, there is a buffer overflow for very long fds in the ">& fd" syntax.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 17.10 only
• Zsh Zsh: before 5.0.7 (fixed in 5.0.7)

Published 2018-02-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.