CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2072

7.2 HIGH Published 2005-06-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-06-29
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
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

The runtime linker (ld.so) in Solaris 8, 9, and 10 trusts the LD_AUDIT environment variable in setuid or setgid programs, which allows local users to gain privileges by (1) modifying LD_AUDIT to reference malicious code and possibly (2) using a long value for LD_AUDIT.

Affected configurations

• sun solaris 8.0 • sun solaris 9.0 • sun solaris 10.0 • sun sunos 5.8

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References