CVE-2017-1000408

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.8
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.761

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
GNU C Library (USN-3534-1) libc6_2.23-0ubuntu10_i386.debLinux
GNU C Library (USN-3534-1) libc6_2.23-0ubuntu10_amd64.debLinux
GNU C Library (USN-3534-1) libc6_2.26-0ubuntu2.1_i386.debLinux
GNU C Library (USN-3534-1) libc6_2.26-0ubuntu2.1_amd64.debLinux

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