CVE-2017-16997 Information

Description

elf/dl-load.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.19 through 2.26 mishandles RPATH and RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN for a privileged (setuid or AT_SECURE) program which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse library in the current working directory related to the fillin_rpath and decompose_rpath functions. This is associated with misinterpretion of an empty RPATH/RUNPATH token as the ./\ directory. NOTE: this configuration of RPATH/RUNPATH for a privileged program is apparently very uncommon; most likely no such program is shipped with any common Linux distribution.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102228 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3092 https://bugs.debian.org/884615 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22625 https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-12/msg00528.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8