CVE - CVE-2015-8777

CVE-ID
CVE-2015-8777	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
The process_envvars function in elf/rtld.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.23 allows local users to bypass a pointer-guarding protection mechanism via a zero value of the LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable.
References
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MLIST:[oss-security] 20160119 Re: CVE assignment request for security bugs fixed in glibc 2.23 URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/20/1 MISC:http://hmarco.org/bugs/glibc_ptr_mangle_weakness.html CONFIRM:https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18928 DEBIAN:DSA-3480 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3480 FEDORA:FEDORA-2016-0480defc94 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177404.html GENTOO:GLSA-201702-11 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-11 REDHAT:RHSA-2017:1916 URL:https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1916 SUSE:SUSE-SU-2016:0470 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html SUSE:SUSE-SU-2016:0471 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00037.html SUSE:SUSE-SU-2016:0472 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00038.html SUSE:SUSE-SU-2016:0473 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00039.html UBUNTU:USN-2985-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-1 UBUNTU:USN-2985-2 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2985-2 BID:81469 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81469 SECTRACK:1034811 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034811
Assigning CNA
N/A
Date Entry Created
20160119	Disclaimer: The entry 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 (20160119)
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Comments (Legacy)

Proposed (Legacy)
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