F5 Networks: K09052213 (CVE-2015-8777): glibc vulnerability CVE-2015-8777
2
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
01/20/2016
07/25/2018
02/16/2017
09/16/2019
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)
- f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest
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