vulnerability
Ubuntu: USN-7541-1 (CVE-2025-4802): GNU C Library vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | May 16, 2025 | May 29, 2025 | Apr 16, 2026 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 16, 2025
Added
May 29, 2025
Modified
Apr 16, 2026
Description
Untrusted LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable vulnerability in the GNU C Library version 2.27 to 2.38 allows attacker controlled loading of dynamically shared library in statically compiled setuid binaries that call dlopen (including internal dlopen calls after setlocale or calls to NSS functions such as getaddrinfo).
Solutions
ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libc6ubuntu-upgrade-libc6
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