Bug 1522830 – CVE-2017-1000409 glibc: Buffer overflow triggerable via LD_LIBRARY_PATH

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Bug 1522830 - (CVE-2017-1000409) CVE-2017-1000409 glibc: Buffer overflow triggerable via LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Summary:	CVE-2017-1000409 glibc: Buffer overflow triggerable via LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2017-1000409

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1524867
Blocks:	1522835
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Reported:	2017-12-06 09:29 EST by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2018-06-28 05:12 EDT (History)
CC List:	14 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	glibc 2.27
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Last Closed:	2017-12-12 07:41:52 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Sourceware	22607	None	None	None	2017-12-14 07:28 EST

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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-12-06 09:29:04 EST

It was found that a buffer overflow can be triggered through the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-12-06 09:29:09 EST

Acknowledgments:

Name: Qualys Research Labs

Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2017-12-12 04:23:16 EST

Public via:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/385

Comment 3 Andrej Nemec 2017-12-12 04:24:30 EST

Created glibc tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1524867]

Comment 4 Raphael Sanchez Prudencio 2017-12-12 08:10:19 EST

Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of glibc as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7 after CVE-2017-1000366 fix:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-1000366

Comment 5 Tomas Hoger 2018-06-26 10:16:06 EDT

Upstream bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22607

Upstream commit:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=3ff3dfa5af313a6ea33f3393916f30eece4f0171

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