CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-1000408
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-772
Description
A memory leak in glibc 2.1.1 (released on May 24, 1999) can be reached and amplified through the LD_HWCAP_MASK environment variable. Please note that many versions of glibc are not vulnerable to this issue if patched for CVE-2017-1000366.
Affected configurations
• gnu glibc 2.1.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/385 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/27/7 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/28/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/28/2 www.openwall.com
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0003/ security.netapp.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43331/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/385 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/27/7 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/28/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/28/2 www.openwall.com
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0003/ security.netapp.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43331/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry