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LIN7-5551 : Security Advisory - glibc - CVE-2015-8777

Created: Jan 28, 2016    Updated: Sep 8, 2018
Resolved Date: Mar 4, 2016
Found In Version: 7.0
Fix Version: 7.0.0.13
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 7
Component/s: Toolchain

Description

The process_envvars function in elf/rtld.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows local users to bypass a pointer-guarding protection mechanism via a zero value of the LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable. 

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8777

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