Untrusted Search Path Affecting glibc package, versions [0,2.25.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLIBC-2319128
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed18 Dec 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-16997  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-426  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade glibc to version 2.25.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Untrusted Search Path elf/dl-load.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.19 through 2.26 mishandles RPATH and RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN for a privileged (setuid or AT_SECURE) program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse library in the current working directory, related to the fillin_rpath and decompose_rpath functions. This is associated with misinterpretion of an empty RPATH/RUNPATH token as the "./" directory. NOTE: this configuration of RPATH/RUNPATH for a privileged program is apparently very uncommon; most likely, no such program is shipped with any common Linux distribution.

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