Bug 2538306 (CVE-2026-95818)

Summary: CVE-2026-95818 glibc: glibc: Local attacker can cause denial of service and information disclosure via stack-based buffer overflow.
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, ashankar, codonell, dj, dpaolell, fweimer, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, pfrankli, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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A flaw was found in glibc, the GNU C Library. A local attacker can exploit a stack-based buffer overflow in the dynamic loader (ld.so) when a setuid/setgid (AT_SECURE) program's DT_RPATH or DT_RUNPATH begins with $ORIGIN followed by a null character or a slash. This vulnerability allows the attacker to crash the loader, leading to a denial of service, and potentially disclose limited process memory.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-22 17:55:04 UTC
A stack-based buffer overflow in the dynamic loader (ld.so) of the GNU C Library (glibc) versions 2.14 through 2.44 allows a local attacker to crash or corrupt the memory of setuid/setgid (AT_SECURE) programs.

When such a program's DT_RPATH or DT_RUNPATH begins with $ORIGIN and is followed by NUL or '/' the loader both reads past the end of the path buffer and writes past the end of a stack-allocated internal buffer. The corrupted loader stack can lead to a loader crash (denial of service) and limited disclosure of process memory.