vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2015-8777: eglibc, glibc -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 20, 2016
Added
Feb 17, 2016
Modified
Apr 14, 2025

Description

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.

Solution(s)

debian-upgrade-eglibcdebian-upgrade-glibc
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