Description
Integer overflow in the process_envvars function in elf/rtld.c in glibc before 2.5-rc4 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a large LD_HWCAP_MASK environment variable value. NOTE: the glibc maintainers state that they do not believe that this issue is exploitable for code execution
Affected products
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n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24758 ↗
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183844 ↗
- http://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2007-07/msg00001.html ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2418 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35240 ↗
- http://osvdb.org/37901 ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018334 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25864 ↗
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200707-04.xml ↗
- http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.5/1600_all_glibc-hwcap-mask-secure.patch?rev=1.1&view=markup ↗