glibc contains a vulnerability that allows specially crafted LD_LIBRARY_PATH values to manipulate the heap/stack, causing them to alias, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution. Please note that additional hardening changes have been made to glibc to prevent manipulation of stack and heap memory but these issues are not directly exploitable, as such they have not been given a CVE. This affects glibc 2.25 and earlier.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 7.8
- CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon_linux | — | amazon-linux-upgrade-glibc | Jul 1, 2017 | Jun 19, 2017 |
| Arch Linux | View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗ | arch-linux-upgrade-latest | Jul 11, 2025 | Jun 19, 2017 |
| Centos_linux | — | centos-upgrade-glibccentos-upgrade-glibc-commoncentos-upgrade-glibc-debuginfocentos-upgrade-glibc-debuginfo-commoncentos-upgrade-glibc-develcentos-upgrade-glibc-headerscentos-upgrade-glibc-staticcentos-upgrade-glibc-utilscentos-upgrade-nscd | Jun 21, 2017 | Jun 19, 2017 |
| Redhat_linux | no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-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 | Jul 1, 2017 | Jun 19, 2017 | |
| Suse | — | suse-upgrade-glibcsuse-upgrade-glibc-32bitsuse-upgrade-glibc-develsuse-upgrade-glibc-devel-32bitsuse-upgrade-glibc-devel-staticsuse-upgrade-glibc-extrasuse-upgrade-glibc-htmlsuse-upgrade-glibc-i18ndatasuse-upgrade-glibc-infosuse-upgrade-glibc-langsuse-upgrade-glibc-localesuse-upgrade-glibc-locale-32bitsuse-upgrade-glibc-locale-basesuse-upgrade-glibc-locale-base-32bitsuse-upgrade-glibc-locale-x86suse-upgrade-glibc-profilesuse-upgrade-glibc-profile-32bitsuse-upgrade-glibc-profile-x86suse-upgrade-glibc-utilssuse-upgrade-glibc-x86suse-upgrade-nscdsuse-upgrade-sles12-docker-imagesuse-upgrade-sles12sp1-docker-imagesuse-upgrade-sles12sp2-docker-image | Jun 20, 2017 | Jun 19, 2017 |
| Ubuntu | ubuntu-upgrade-libc6 | Jun 19, 2017 | Jun 19, 2017 |
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