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CVE-2015-8777

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
5.5
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.06

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
SUSE-SU-2016:0472-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) glibc-2.11.3-17.95.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2016:0472-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) glibc-32bit-2.11.3-17.95.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2016:0472-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) glibc-devel-2.11.3-17.95.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2016:0472-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) glibc-devel-32bit-2.11.3-17.95.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2016:0472-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 ) glibc-html-2.11.3-17.95.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2016:0472-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) glibc-i18ndata-2.11.3-17.95.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2016:0472-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 ) glibc-info-2.11.3-17.95.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2016:0472-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) glibc-locale-2.11.3-17.95.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2016:0472-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) glibc-locale-32bit-2.11.3-17.95.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2016:0472-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 ) glibc-profile-2.11.3-17.95.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2016:0472-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 ) glibc-profile-32bit-2.11.3-17.95.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2016:0472-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) nscd-2.11.3-17.95.2.x86_64.rpmLinux
CVE-2015-8777NCM

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234