CVE-2011-0536 Information

Description

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in elf/dl-object.c in certain modified versions of the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) including glibc-2.5-49.el5_5.6 and glibc-2.12-1.7.el6_0.3 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted dynamic shared object (DSO) in a subdirectory of the current working directory during execution of a (1) setuid or (2) setgid program that has $ORIGIN in (a) RPATH or (b) RUNPATH within the program itself or a referenced library. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2010-3847.

Reference

http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2011/msg00005.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/01/3 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/03/2 http://secunia.com/advisories/43830 http://secunia.com/advisories/43989 http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 http://securitytracker.com/id?1025289 http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=96611391ad8823ba58405325d78cefeae5cdf699 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:178 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0412.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0413.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1009-2 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0863 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667974 https://launchpad.net/bugs/701783 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A13086