CVE-2025-4802 Affecting glibc-utils package, versions <2.38-150600.14.32.1


Severity

Recommended
critical

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-GLIBCUTILS-10303843
  • published5 Jun 2025
  • disclosed4 Jun 2025

Introduced: 4 Jun 2025

NewCVE-2025-4802  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 glibc-utils to version 2.38-150600.14.32.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc-utils package and not the glibc-utils package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 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).

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1