CVE-2001-0169

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

When using the LD_PRELOAD environmental variable in SUID or SGID applications, glibc does not verify that preloaded libraries in /etc/ld.so.cache are also SUID/SGID, which could allow a local user to overwrite arbitrary files by loading a library from /lib or /usr/lib.

When using the LD_PRELOAD environmental variable in SUID or SGID applications, glibc does not verify that preloaded libraries in /etc/ld.so.cache are also SUID/SGID, which could allow a local user to overwrite arbitrary files by loading a library from /lib or /usr/lib.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 23 years ago

2001-03-26 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 6.0

6.0

MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 6.1

6.1

MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 7.0

7.0

MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 7.1

7.1

MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 7.2

7.2

MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 1.0.1

1.0.1

Trustix Secure Linux 1.1

1.1

Trustix Secure Linux 1.2

1.2

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