CVE-2025-4802 Affecting glibc package, versions <2.27-3ubuntu1.6+esm5


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-GLIBC-10185056
  • published1 Jun 2025
  • disclosed16 May 2025

Introduced: 16 May 2025

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How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 glibc to version 2.27-3ubuntu1.6+esm5 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc package and not the glibc package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 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