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CVE-2015-8777

Published: Jan 20, 2016 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
3.7 LOW
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
7 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8777
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/254.html

The process_envvars function in elf/rtld.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows local users to bypass a pointer-guarding protection mechanism via a zero value of the LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Glibc Gnu * 2.22 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat glibc-0:2.17-196.el7 *
Eglibc Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Eglibc Ubuntu precise *
Eglibc Ubuntu trusty *
Eglibc Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Eglibc Ubuntu upstream *
Glibc Ubuntu upstream *
Glibc Ubuntu vivid *
Glibc Ubuntu vivid/stable-phone-overlay *
Glibc Ubuntu vivid/ubuntu-core *
Glibc Ubuntu wily *

References

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