CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0959

1.2 LOW Published 2000-12-19 Modified 2026-09-23 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-12-19
Last modified
2026-09-23
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
1.2 LOW — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

glibc2 does not properly clear the LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT and LD_DEBUG environmental variables when a program is spawned from a setuid program, which could allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack.

Affected configurations

• gnu glibc 2.1.3.10

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-454 External Initialization of Trusted Variables or Data Stores weakness

References