CVE-2010-3847

EPSS 12.4%

glibc - local privilege escalation

Published: 1/7/2011Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

elf/dl-load.c in ld.so in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.11.2, and 2.12.x through 2.12.1, does not properly handle a value of $ORIGIN for the LD_AUDIT environment variable, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted dynamic shared object (DSO) located in an arbitrary directory.

Affected packages (3)

References (1)