Access Restriction Bypass Affecting glibc package, versions [,2.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLIBC-2319094
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed30 Mar 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Mar 2011

CVE-2009-5064  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade glibc to version 2.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. ** DISPUTED ** ldd in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.13 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file linked with a modified loader that omits certain LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS checks. NOTE: the GNU C Library vendor states "This is just nonsense. There are a gazillion other ways to introduce code if people are downloading arbitrary binaries and install them in appropriate directories or set LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc."

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