CVE - CVE-2007-3508

CVE-ID
CVE-2007-3508	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
DISPUTED Integer overflow in the process_envvars function in elf/rtld.c in glibc before 2.5-rc4 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a large LD_HWCAP_MASK environment variable value. NOTE: the glibc maintainers state that they do not believe that this issue is exploitable for code execution.
References
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BID:24758 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24758 CONFIRM:http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183844 GENTOO:GLSA-200707-04 URL:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200707-04.xml MISC:http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.5/1600_all_glibc-hwcap-mask-secure.patch?rev=1.1&view=markup MLIST:[libc-hacker] [PATCH] Fix LD_HWCAP_MASK handling URL:http://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2007-07/msg00001.html OSVDB:37901 URL:~~http://osvdb.org/37901~~ (Obsolete source) SECTRACK:1018334 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018334 SECUNIA:25864 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/25864 VUPEN:ADV-2007-2418 URL:~~http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2418~~ (Obsolete source) XF:glibc-envvars-overflow(35240) URL:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35240
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20070702	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20070702)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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