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CVE-2010-3847 (GCVE-0-2010-3847)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-01-07 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 03:26
VLAI
Summary
elf/dl-load.c in ld.so in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.11.2, and 2.12.x through 2.12.1, does not properly handle a value of $ORIGIN for the LD_AUDIT environment variable, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted dynamic shared object (DSO) located in an arbitrary directory.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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Date Public
2010-10-18 00:00
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