CVE-2015-8777

N/A

Description

The process_envvars function in elf/rtld.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows local users to bypass a pointer-guarding protection mechanism via a zero value of the LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published1/20/2016

Last Modified4/12/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

gnu:glibc

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-254

References

http://hmarco.org/bugs/glibc_ptr_mangle_weakness.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177404.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00037.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00038.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00039.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3480(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/20/1(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81469(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034811(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2(secalert@redhat.com)

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1916(secalert@redhat.com)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-11(secalert@redhat.com)

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18928(secalert@redhat.com)

http://hmarco.org/bugs/glibc_ptr_mangle_weakness.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177404.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00037.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00038.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00039.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3480(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/20/1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81469(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034811(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1916(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-11(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18928(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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