CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1182

7.2 HIGH Published 1997-07-17 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1997-07-17
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Buffer overflow in run-time linkers (1) ld.so or (2) ld-linux.so for Linux systems allows local users to gain privileges by calling a setuid program with a long program name (argv[0]) and forcing ld.so/ld-linux.so to report an error.

Affected configurations

• delix dld 5.2 • caldera openlinux lite 1.1 • debian debian linux 4.0 • lst lst power linux 2.2 • redhat linux 4.0 • redhat linux 4.1 • redhat linux 4.2 • suse suse linux 5.0

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