CVE-2001-0169 (GCVE-0-2001-0169)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2001-05-07 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 04:06
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Summary
When using the LD_PRELOAD environmental variable in SUID or SGID applications, glibc does not verify that preloaded libraries in /etc/ld.so.cache are also SUID/SGID, which could allow a local user to overwrite arbitrary files by loading a library from /lib or /usr/lib.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-039 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2223 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/157650 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MD… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-002.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/linux/turb… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TURBO
http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/ad… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CALDERA
Date Public
2001-01-16 00:00
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