vulnerability
Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2015-8777): GNU C Library vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) | Jan 20, 2016 | May 27, 2016 | Mar 27, 2026 |
Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 20, 2016
Added
May 27, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 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
ubuntu-upgrade-libc6ubuntu-upgrade-libc6-dev
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