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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2015-8777: GNU C Library: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2015-8777: GNU C Library: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/20/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
01/08/2018

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)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-libs-glibc

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