CVE-2015-8777
Public on 2016-01-20
Modified on 2017-08-31
Description
It was found that the dynamic loader did not sanitize the LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass the pointer guarding protection on set-user-ID or set-group-ID programs to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application.
Severity
Low
CVSS v3 Base Score
See breakdown
Affected Packages
| Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux 1 | glibc | 2017-08-31 | ALAS-2017-877 | Fixed |
CVSS Scores
| Score Type | Score | Vector | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 3.7 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 7.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVD | CVSSv2 | 2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
| NVD | CVSSv3 | 5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |