CVE-2000-0959

Severity

12%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

48%

glibc2 does not properly clear the LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT and LD_DEBUG environmental variables when a program is spawned from a setuid program, which could allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack.

glibc2 does not properly clear the LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT and LD_DEBUG environmental variables when a program is spawned from a setuid program, which could allow local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 1.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 24 years ago

2000-12-19 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

GNU glibc 2.1.3.10

2.1.3.10

References

20000926 ld.so bug - LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT follows symlinks

1719

Vendor Advisory

glibc-unset-symlink(5299)

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