CVE-2010-3847 Information

Description

elf/dl-load.c in ld.so in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.11.2 and 2.12.x through 2.12.1 does not properly handle a value of $ORIGIN for the LD_AUDIT environment variable which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted dynamic shared object (DSO) located in an arbitrary directory.

Reference

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Oct/257 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Oct/292 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Oct/294 http://secunia.com/advisories/42787 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201011-01.xml http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2010-10/msg00007.html http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100120941 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2122 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/537223 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:207 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0872.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515545/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44154 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1009-1 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0001.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0025 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643306 https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00007.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0787.html https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44024/ https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44025/