CVE-2007-3508

Published Jul 3, 2007

Last updated 7 months ago

Overview

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
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified
CNA Tags
disputed

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
CWE-189

Social media

Hype score
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Vendor comments

  • MandrivaBased on the analysis of Red Hat and several Glibc developers, Mandriva does not believe this to be exploitable.
  • Red HatAfter careful analysis by Red Hat and several Glibc developers, it has been determined that this bug is not exploitable. For more information please see Red Hat Bugzilla bug #247208 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247208

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