CVE-2000-0824

Published Nov 14, 2000

Last updated 3 months ago

Overview

Description: The unsetenv function in glibc 2.1.1 does not properly unset an environmental variable if the variable is provided twice to a program, which could allow local users to execute arbitrary commands in setuid programs by specifying their own duplicate environmental variables such as LD_PRELOAD or LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.2
Impact score: 10
Exploitability score: 3.9
Vector string: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

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  {
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      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "8ED8F0E8-A969-4F7F-A100-662F4A5426FD"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References