Out-of-Bounds

Affecting glibc package, versions <2.24-11+deb9u4

Report new vulnerabilities
Do your applications use this vulnerable package? Test your applications

Overview

A buffer overflow in glibc 2.5 (released on September 29, 2006) and can be triggered through the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. Please note that many versions of glibc are not vulnerable to this issue if patched for CVE-2017-1000366.

References

CVSS Score

7.0
high severity
  • Attack Vector
    Local
  • Attack Complexity
    High
  • Privileges Required
    Low
  • User Interaction
    None
  • Scope
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality
    High
  • Integrity
    High
  • Availability
    High
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:F
CVE
CVE-2017-1000409
CWE
CWE-119
Snyk ID
SNYK-DEBIAN9-GLIBC-356506
Disclosed
01 Feb, 2018
Published
01 Feb, 2018