Access Restriction Bypass Affecting glibc package, versions [,2.11.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.04% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLIBC-2319022
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed7 Jan 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Jan 2011

CVE-2010-3856  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade glibc to version 2.11.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass ld.so in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.11.3, and 2.12.x before 2.12.2, does not properly restrict use of the LD_AUDIT environment variable to reference dynamic shared objects (DSOs) as audit objects, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging an unsafe DSO located in a trusted library directory, as demonstrated by libpcprofile.so.

CVSS Scores

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