CVE-2001-0169
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 7, 2001
- Updated
- Aug 8, 2024
- Reserved
- Mar 8, 2001
Description
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- SuSE-SA:2001:01vendor-advisory
- DSA-039vendor-advisory
- linux-glibc-preload-overwrite(5971)vdb-entry
- 2223vdb-entry
- 20010121 Trustix Security Advisory - glibcmailing-list
- MDKSA-2001:012vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2001:002vendor-advisory
- TLSA2000021-2vendor-advisory
- CSSA-2001-007vendor-advisory
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