CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-5064

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2011-03-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-03-30
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

ldd in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.13 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file linked with a modified loader that omits certain LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS checks. NOTE: the GNU C Library vendor states "This is just nonsense. There are a gazillion other ways to introduce code if people are downloading arbitrary binaries and install them in appropriate directories or set LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc.

Affected configurations

• gnu glibc (<= 2.1.3) • gnu glibc 1.00 • gnu glibc 1.01 • gnu glibc 1.02 • gnu glibc 1.03 • gnu glibc 1.04 • gnu glibc 1.05 • gnu glibc 1.06 • gnu glibc 1.07 • gnu glibc 1.08 • gnu glibc 1.09 • gnu glibc 1.09.1 • gnu glibc 2.0 • gnu glibc 2.0.1 • gnu glibc 2.0.2 • gnu glibc 2.0.3 • gnu glibc 2.0.4 • gnu glibc 2.0.5 • gnu glibc 2.0.6 • gnu glibc 2.1 • gnu glibc 2.1.1 • gnu glibc 2.1.1.6 • gnu glibc 2.1.2

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

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