CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-3508
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-07-03
- 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-189
Description
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
Affected configurations
• gentoo glibc (<= 2.5)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183844 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://osvdb.org/37901 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25864 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200707-04.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.5/1600_all_glibc-hwcap-mask-secure.patch?rev=1.1&view=markup sources.gentoo.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24758 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018334 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2007-07/msg00001.html www.sourceware.org
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2418 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35240 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183844 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://osvdb.org/37901 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25864 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200707-04.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.5/1600_all_glibc-hwcap-mask-secure.patch?rev=1.1&view=markup sources.gentoo.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24758 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018334 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2007-07/msg00001.html www.sourceware.org
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2418 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35240 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com