CVE-2007-3508 (GCVE-0-2007-3508)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-07-03 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 14:21 Disputed
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Integer overflow in the process_envvars function in elf/rtld.c in glibc before 2.5-rc4 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a large LD_HWCAP_MASK environment variable value. NOTE: the glibc maintainers state that they do not believe that this issue is exploitable for code execution
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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|---|---|
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| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://osvdb.org/37901 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018334 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/25864 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200707-04.xml | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/src/p… | x_refsource_MISC |
Date Public
2007-07-01 00:00
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