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CVE-2025-4802

Published: May 16, 2025

Modified: Feb 26, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

Untrusted LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable vulnerability in the GNU C Library version 2.27 to 2.38 allows attacker controlled loading of dynamically shared library in statically compiled setuid binaries that call dlopen (including internal dlopen calls after setlocale or calls to NSS functions such as getaddrinfo).

Vendor	Product	Versions
The GNU C Library	glibc	affected `2.27 - < 2.39`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=1e18586c5820e329f741d5c710275e165581380e

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32976

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