CVE-2010-3847
N/A
Published: January 7, 2011 at 06:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:23 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorGlibc
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 9%
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
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (21)
Mailing Listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Oct/257Mailing Listx_refsource_FULLDISC
Source: [email protected]
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Oct/292Mailing Listx_refsource_FULLDISC
Source: [email protected]
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Oct/294Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/42787Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201011-01.xmlMailing Listx_refsource_MLISTPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2010-10/msg00007.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2122Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-59
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