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CVE-2007-3508

Published: Jul 3, 2007

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Integer overflow in the process_envvars function in elf/rtld.c in glibc before 2.5-rc4 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a large LD_HWCAP_MASK environment variable value. NOTE: the glibc maintainers state that they do not believe that this issue is exploitable for code execution

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

vdb-entry

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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183844

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[libc-hacker] [PATCH] Fix LD_HWCAP_MASK handling

mailing-list

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vdb-entry

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glibc-envvars-overflow(35240)

vdb-entry

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vdb-entry

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vdb-entry

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third-party-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.5/1600_all_glibc-hwcap-mask-secure.patch?rev=1.1&view=markup

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