Vulnerability CVE-2023-4911


Published: 2023-10-03

Description:
A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variables when launching binaries with SUID permission to execute code with elevated privileges.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
glibc ld.so Local Privilege Escalation
Qualys Security ...
08.10.2023
Med.
Glibc Tunables Privilege Escalation
Blasty
24.12.2023

Type:

CWE-264

(Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

 References:
https://www.qualys.com/cve-2023-4911/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2238352
https://www.qualys.com/2023/10/03/cve-2023-4911/looney-tunables-local-privilege-escalation-glibc-ld-so.txt
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4911

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