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Red Hat: CVE-2015-8777: Moderate: glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2017:1916)

Name: Red Hat: CVE-2015-8777: Moderate: glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2017:1916)
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2016-01-20T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, Red Hat, 2015, 8777, Moderate, redhat-upgrade-glibc, redhat-upgrade-glibc-common, redhat-upgrade-glibc-debuginfo, redhat-upgrade-glibc-debuginfo-common, redhat-upgrade-glibc-devel, redhat-upgrade-glibc-headers, redhat-upgrade-glibc-static, redhat-upgrade-glibc-utils, redhat-upgrade-nscd, Severity 2

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CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Published

Jan 20, 2016

Added

Aug 3, 2017

Modified

Feb 19, 2026

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.

Solutions

redhat-upgrade-glibcredhat-upgrade-glibc-commonredhat-upgrade-glibc-debuginforedhat-upgrade-glibc-debuginfo-commonredhat-upgrade-glibc-develredhat-upgrade-glibc-headersredhat-upgrade-glibc-staticredhat-upgrade-glibc-utilsredhat-upgrade-nscd

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