Description
Untrusted LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable vulnerability in the GNU C Library version 2.27 to 2.38 allows attacker controlled loading of dynamically shared library in statically compiled setuid binaries that call dlopen (including internal dlopen calls after setlocale or calls to NSS functions such as getaddrinfo).
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
The GNU C Library glibc
Default version status: unaffected
2.27 to < 2.39affected
References
- https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=1e18586c5820e329f741d5c710275e165581380e ↗
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32976 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/16/7 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/17/2 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00033.html ↗