CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8777
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-01-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-254
Description
The process_envvars function in elf/rtld.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows local users to bypass a pointer-guarding protection mechanism via a zero value of the LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable.
Affected configurations
• gnu glibc (<= 2.22)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://hmarco.org/bugs/glibc_ptr_mangle_weakness.html Exploit
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177404.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00037.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00038.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00039.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3480 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/20/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81469 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034811 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2 www.ubuntu.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1916 access.redhat.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-11 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18928 sourceware.org
- http://hmarco.org/bugs/glibc_ptr_mangle_weakness.html Exploit
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177404.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00037.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00038.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00039.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3480 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/20/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81469 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034811 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2 www.ubuntu.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1916 access.redhat.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-11 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18928 sourceware.org