CVE-1999-1182

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Buffer overflow in run-time linkers (1) ld.so or (2) ld-linux.so for Linux systems allows local users to gain privileges by calling a setuid program with a long program name (argv[0]) and forcing ld.so/ld-linux.so to report an error.

Buffer overflow in run-time linkers (1) ld.so or (2) ld-linux.so for Linux systems allows local users to gain privileges by calling a setuid program with a long program name (argv[0]) and forcing ld.so/ld-linux.so to report an error.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 27 years ago

1997-07-17 04:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:01:00

Affected Software

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0

4.0

Red Hat Linux 4.0

4.0

Red Hat Linux 4.1

4.1

Red Hat Linux 4.2

4.2

SuSE SuSE Linux 5.0

5.0

References

19970717 KSR[T] Advisory #2: ld.so

19970722 ld.so vulnerability

19980204 An old ld-linux.so hole

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