CVE-2007-3508

Description

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

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35240

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2418

http://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2007-07/msg00001.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018334

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24758

http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.5/1600_all_glibc-hwcap-mask-secure.patch?rev=1.1&view=markup

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200707-04.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/25864

http://osvdb.org/37901

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183844

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3