{"id":"CVE-2015-8777","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"The process_envvars function in elf/rtld.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows local users to bypass a pointer-guarding protection mechanism via a zero val","description":"The process_envvars function in elf/rtld.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows local users to bypass a pointer-guarding protection mechanism via a zero value of the LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable.","publishedAt":"2016-01-20T02:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2024-08-06T08:29:21.801Z","severity":null,"assigner":"redhat","products":["n/a n/a"],"affected":[{"vendor":"n/a","product":"n/a","versions":[{"version":"n/a","status":"affected"}]}],"references":["http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00037.html","https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1916","http://hmarco.org/bugs/glibc_ptr_mangle_weakness.html","http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html","http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2","http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/20/1","https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-11","http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00038.html","http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00039.html","http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81469","https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18928","http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177404.html","http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3480","http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1","http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034811"],"weaknesses":[],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-29T19:42:17.446Z","source":{"repository":"CVEProject/cvelistV5","path":"cves/2015/8xxx/CVE-2015-8777.json","commit":"556c9d3a8cd17e218bb8e452ba7cd619a384ff47"},"raw":{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.1","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2015-8777","state":"PUBLISHED","datePublished":"2016-01-20T02:00:00.000Z","dateUpdated":"2024-08-06T08:29:21.801Z","assignerShortName":"redhat","assignerOrgId":"53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749","dateReserved":"2016-01-19T00:00:00.000Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"The process_envvars function in elf/rtld.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows local users to bypass a pointer-guarding protection mechanism via a zero value of the LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable."}],"affected":[{"vendor":"n/a","product":"n/a","versions":[{"version":"n/a","status":"affected"}]}],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00037.html","name":"SUSE-SU-2016:0471","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_SUSE"]},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1916","name":"RHSA-2017:1916","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_REDHAT"]},{"url":"http://hmarco.org/bugs/glibc_ptr_mangle_weakness.html","tags":["x_refsource_MISC"]},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html","name":"SUSE-SU-2016:0470","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_SUSE"]},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2","name":"USN-2985-2","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_UBUNTU"]},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/20/1","name":"[oss-security] 20160119 Re: CVE assignment request for security bugs fixed in glibc 2.23","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_MLIST"]},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-11","name":"GLSA-201702-11","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_GENTOO"]},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00038.html","name":"SUSE-SU-2016:0472","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_SUSE"]},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00039.html","name":"SUSE-SU-2016:0473","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_SUSE"]},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81469","name":"81469","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_BID"]},{"url":"https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18928","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM"]},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177404.html","name":"FEDORA-2016-0480defc94","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_FEDORA"]},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3480","name":"DSA-3480","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_DEBIAN"]},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1","name":"USN-2985-1","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_UBUNTU"]},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034811","name":"1034811","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_SECTRACK"]}],"problemTypes":[{"descriptions":[{"description":"n/a","lang":"en","type":"text"}]}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"redhat","dateUpdated":"2018-01-04T19:57:01.000Z","orgId":"53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749"},"datePublic":"2015-09-05T00:00:00.000Z"},"adp":[{"title":"CVE Program Container","references":[{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00037.html","name":"SUSE-SU-2016:0471","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_SUSE","x_transferred"]},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1916","name":"RHSA-2017:1916","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_REDHAT","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://hmarco.org/bugs/glibc_ptr_mangle_weakness.html","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html","name":"SUSE-SU-2016:0470","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_SUSE","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2","name":"USN-2985-2","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_UBUNTU","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/20/1","name":"[oss-security] 20160119 Re: CVE assignment request for security bugs fixed in glibc 2.23","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_MLIST","x_transferred"]},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-11","name":"GLSA-201702-11","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_GENTOO","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00038.html","name":"SUSE-SU-2016:0472","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_SUSE","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00039.html","name":"SUSE-SU-2016:0473","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_SUSE","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81469","name":"81469","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_BID","x_transferred"]},{"url":"https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18928","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177404.html","name":"FEDORA-2016-0480defc94","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_FEDORA","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3480","name":"DSA-3480","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_DEBIAN","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1","name":"USN-2985-1","tags":["vendor-advisory","x_refsource_UBUNTU","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034811","name":"1034811","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_SECTRACK","x_transferred"]}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"CVE","orgId":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","dateUpdated":"2024-08-06T08:29:21.801Z"}}]}}}