CVE-2007-3508

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Integer overflow in the process_envvars function in elf/rtld.c in glibc before 2.5-rc4 might allow local users to execut

Integer overflow in the process_envvars function in elf/rtld.c in glibc before 2.5-rc4 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a large LD_HWCAP_MASK environment variable value. NOTE: the glibc maintainers state that they do not believe that this issue is exploitable for code execution.

HIGH · CVSS 7.2 EPSS 0.00051

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CVSS base score ≥ 7.0

Sigma rules0 YARA rules0

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Affected Products & Versions

gentoo glibc<= 2.5

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Scoring & Timeline

7.2

HIGH · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org

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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.

v2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Published to NVD03 Jul 2007 · 09:30 PM

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References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183844

http://osvdb.org/37901

http://secunia.com/advisories/25864Vendor Advisory

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200707-04.xml

http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.5/1600_all_glibc-hwcap-mask-secure.patch?rev=1.1&view=markup

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24758

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http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018334

http://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2007-07/msg00001.html

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2418Vendor Advisory

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35240

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