Untrusted Search Path The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package glibc (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GLIBC-10199804
- published21 May 2025
- disclosed16 May 2025
Introduced: 16 May 2025
CVE-2025-4802 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc package and not the glibc package as distributed by RHEL.
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://access.redhat.com/security/cve/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