CVE-2025-4802 Affecting glibc package, versions *
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- published17 May 2025
- disclosed16 May 2025
Introduced: 16 May 2025
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How to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:11 glibc.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc package and not the glibc package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.
Untrusted LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable vulnerability in the GNU C Library version 2.27 to 2.38 allows attacker controlled loading of dynamically shared library in statically compiled setuid binaries that call dlopen (including internal dlopen calls after setlocale or calls to NSS functions such as getaddrinfo).
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-4802
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32976
- https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=1e18586c5820e329f741d5c710275e165581380e
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/16/7
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/17/2