CVE-2010-3856 (GCVE-0-2010-3856)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-01-07 18:00 – Updated: 2025-02-13 16:27
VLAI
Summary
ld.so in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.11.3, and 2.12.x before 2.12.2, does not properly restrict use of the LD_AUDIT environment variable to reference dynamic shared objects (DSOs) as audit objects, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging an unsafe DSO located in a trusted library directory, as demonstrated by libpcprofile.so.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Oct/344 mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44347 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201011-01.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-20… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100121017 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645672 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-08… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-anno… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44025/ exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2122 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1009-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2010-10/msg0… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515545/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://secunia.com/advisories/42787 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0025 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0793.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/18 mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/14 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153278/WAGO-… x_refsource_MISC
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/19/9
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jul/31
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/20/1
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/173661/OpenS…
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2010-10-22 00:00
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